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Two potent new reports on race and the drug war

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this news article, "two studies published today conclude that the battle has been pitched largely in African American communities and that African Americans bear a disproportionate brunt of its collateral damage."  The two new studies come from The Sentencing Project and from Human Rights Watch. The Sentencing Project report, titled "Geography: The War on Drugs in America's Cities," is available at this link.  The Human Rights Watch report, titled "Targeting Blacks Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States," is available at this link.  These excerpts from the conclusion of the HRW report reminds me why I find it disappointing and shameful that these issues are overlooked in the media/political frenzy surrounding a presidential campaign that is supposedly all about race:The racial disparities in incarceration generated by drug control strategies raise deeply troubling questions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).