Why are blacks punished for drug crimes more often than whites?

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Adult black males are nearly 12 times as likely to be imprisoned for drug convictions as adult white men.

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Why are blacks punished for drug crimes more often than whites?

Even though blacks and whites use illegal drugs at roughly equal rates, blacks are more likely to end up in prison as a result. Apart from crowding prisons, one result is a devastating impact on the lives of black men: adult black males are nearly 12 times as likely to be imprisoned for drug convictions as adult white men.

Two new reports, issued Monday by the Sentencing Project in Washington and by Human Rights Watch in New York, say the racial disparities reflect, in large part, an overwhelming focus of law enforcement on drug use in low-income urban areas, with arrests and incarceration the main weapon.

Why are African Americans punished for drug crimes more often than whites? And what should be done?

Ben likes: High incarceration a function of crime, not racism

Heather Mac Donald/Investor's Business Daily

The favorite culprits for high black prison rates include a biased legal system, draconian drug enforcement and even prison itself. None of these explanations stands up to scrutiny.

The black incarceration rate is overwhelmingly a function of black crime. Insisting otherwise only worsens black alienation and further defers a real solution to the black crime problem.

Racial activists usually remain silent about that problem. But in 2005, the black homicide rate was more than seven times higher than that of whites and Hispanics combined, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics.

When prominent figures such as Barack Obama make sweeping claims about racial unfairness in the criminal-justice system, they play with fire. The evidence is clear: Black prison rates result from crime, not racism. The dramatic drop in crime in the 1990s, to which stricter sentencing policies unquestionably contributed, has freed thousands of law-abiding inner-city residents from the bondage of fear.

The continuing search for the chimera of criminal-justice bigotry is a useless distraction that diverts energy and attention from the crucial imperative of helping more inner-city boys stay in school — and out of trouble.

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Leonard Pitts Jr./Miami Herald

I need no lectures to remind me that good people inhabit the system; my cousin is a federal prosecutor. Nor do I need any lectures on the heroism of cops; I've ridden with police, been protected by them and yield to no one in my admiration for those who do that job with honor.

So save the lectures, just give me an answer: How can I trust a system whose biases against people who look like me are simultaneously well-documented, yet happily ignored by those who resemble me not at all.

The question matters because without trust, the system doesn't work. Everybody came down, and justifiably so, on the idiot rapper who said last year that he would not call police even if a serial killer were living next door. Unfortunately, fewer people bothered to ask where such profound distrust comes from. Fewer still bothered to ask what it leads to.

People don't participate in systems they don't trust. They don't come forward, they don't testify. So criminals go uncaptured and crimes, unpunished. Yet some black people apparently find that preferable to participating in a system they believe is rigged against them. I don't agree with them, but before you condemn them, ask yourself: Would you play in a game refereed by someone who hated you? What's the point?

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the united states has more people incarcerated than any other country including china. yes MORE people not per cappa but actual number of citizenry. this is an abomination. there are over two million americans in prison and at least a quarter of them are in there for non violent crimes such as drugs. per cappa the number is even more disturbing. at least 1,100 people per 100,000. china is around 700 per 100,000; russia 500 per 100,000; western europe has less than 200 per 100,000. sure crime rates have dropped. i would imagine if we put a prohibition on alcohol; which represents at least half a million deaths a year in this country not to mention 90% of all fatal traffic accidents we'd find a reduction in traffic accidents, wouldn't that be great? yes but we know it doesn't work and it certainly goes against the grain of all conservative ideals of the political right with laissez faire government. and the number of white people imprisoned would sky rocket. imprisoning tens of millions of people would make the streets safe but that's not the way this country works. so why the prohibition on drugs? race is why. it gives law enforcement "probable cause" to impinge on people of color and their 4th amendment rights. get real. heather's argument is so ridiculous and flies in the face of true non racist conservative values. two suggestions read the history on drug prohibition and then read the bill of rights. it would be enlightening especially for a political commentator.

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First I would like to get out of the way that one little pet peeve of mine, most people on welfare programs and such are white. A HIGHER percentage of the black community may be but overall....

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2- My PARENTS both in their 60's driving a 2005(in 2006) Crown Victoria came to my apt to give me some money. My father has a bad knee so I came down to the car and he gave me a couple of hundred dollars and left. A cop saw this and followed my father thinking it was some "drug deal" and pulled him over. OK I can understand I guess. He questioned my father about what he was doing. My father said " giving my son some money" blah blah blah. The cop then requested to search the car so on and so forth. My father is a nerd and has NEVER even had a car wreck, doesn't drink nothing, doesn't speed a complete goody two shoes.

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3) I have had many white friends my culter is white really I listen to rock music and so fourth... I highschool these white kids would steal from clothing stores and CD stores and so one. How they did it they would get one of their black "friends" from the ghetto to go into the store a few min before hand and then go in a take whate they wanted. The security would be so tuned in to the black male that they did not even notice these clean cut preppy boys stealing from them.

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Submitted on May 6th, 2008 by Anonymous

Heather MacDonald is only partially right when she says this focus on supposed unfair prosecution and incarceration "worsens black alienation and further defers a real solution to the black crime problem." I would add that it is itself a cause of that black crime. When the liberal elites and their anointed black leaders create a mindset where the black community believes that their lives are mostly determined by outside pernicious forces, they discourage blacks from the realization that the most important things, by far, that will determine the success of their lives are what they do, the choices and decisions they make. You can take just a handful of indicators in that regard and see that when blacks do the right things, it overwhelming results in good life outcomes. Casting the responsibility for people's fate outside of themselves is extremely destructive, creating a victim culture. And those who see themselves as victims tend to quite often become real victimizers. On the other hand, when people take positive control of their lives, it has the effect of removing the inclination to do the wrong things. It is the "race industry and its elite enablers" that are the most pernicious force in the black community.

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Submitted on May 6th, 2008 by CN

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In drastic contrast to those black men who are presently aged 60 yrs and above, who WERE responsible hard working, value based, contributors to society. More importantly, they were the roll molders that any young person could admire.

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