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Read News: ?Drug War? Unjust to African Americans: Two Reports Detail Racial Disparity in Arrests and Imprisonment

By The Sentencing Project

The Sentencing Project’s newest study, Disparity by Geography: The War on Drugs in America’s Cities, is the first city-level analysis of drug arrests, examining data from 43 of the nation’s largest cities between 1980-2003.  The study found that since 1980, the rate of drug arrests in American cities for African Americans increased by 225%, compared to 70% among whites.   Black arrest rates grew by more than 500% in 11 cities during this period and in nearly half of the cities, the odds of arrest for a drug offense among African Americans relative to whites more than doubled. Posted Date:5/5/2008 9:04:36 PM

Full post as published by The Sentencing Project on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).