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March 03, 2009
Human Rights Watch Report: Decades of Disparity Drug Arrests and Race in the United States
Decades of Disparity
Drug Arrests and Race in the United States
March 2, 2009. Human Rights Watch.
Download report: http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/us0309web_1.pdf
This 20-page report says that adult African Americans were arrested on drug charges at rates that were 2.8 to 5.5 times as high as those of white adults in every year from 1980 through 2007, the last year for which complete data were available. About one in three of the more than 25.4 million adult drug arrestees during that period was African American.
Posted by lois at March 3, 2009 02:23 PM