Why I Have Trouble Taking BLM Seriously

[*PhilHos*]

(10-13-2016, 03:25 PM)fredtoast Wrote: 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. 

My bad. I thought I included the link. This is where I got the info:
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/aus9010.pdf
Anywho, my point was that blacks were not arrested more. Now, if you want to argue the RATE at which they're arrested, go ahead. But, in terms of overall numbers, whites are arrested more often for drugs than blacks are.