Why I Have Trouble Taking BLM Seriously

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(10-13-2016, 12:28 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Between 1990-2010, over 1 million white people were arrested for "drug abuse violations". Less than 520,000 blacks were arrested for the same. Under "drug possession/use", the demographics  are 900,000 whites and 400,000 blacks.

Link?

Plus this still shows a disproportionate number of arrests for blacks.

Here is what I found with a linbk to back it up

https://www.hrw.org/news/2009/03/02/us-drug-arrests-skewed-race


 Blacks have been arrested nationwide on drug charges at higher rates than whites for nearly three decades, even though they engage in drug offenses at comparable rates, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.  Using data obtained from the FBI, the report reveals the extent and persistence of racial disparities in US drug-law enforcement. The data also show that most drug arrests are for nothing more serious than possession.

The 20-page report, "Decades of Disparity: Drug Arrests and Race in the United States,"  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. 





http://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/The-Changing-Racial-Dynamics-of-the-War-on-Drugs.pdf


 As of 2005, African Americans represented 12% of the total population of drug users, but 34% of those arrested for drug offenses, 









https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/06/04/the-blackwhite-marijuana-arrest-gap-in-nine-charts/

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In at least one year, the white usage rate was higher. The others, the black usage rate was higher, but in no year were results for the two races that different. For young people ages 18-25, the rates of use are higher for whites:


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