The War on Drugs is a War on the Poor

"Drug war" is not very effective, people question the true motive. Even dogs can eventually learn from electric fences, why not the US government. The goal is to truly reduce the use of drugs, or to isolate society and hurt the trust of vulnerable groups. Due to the combination of minimal judgment and other unfair laws, the US prison population has increased significantly. As a result of these laws, as of 1999, 60% of the federal prison population comprised non-violent drug offenders.

In the home, drug war was always a war against poor people. Especially poor city, African American men and women. There is evidence that enforcement of the new strict narcotic law by the police has focused on low-level dealers in non-ferrous society. Caucasians and African Americans use drugs at about the same rate, but arrests of African Americans are about five times higher than arresting white people. Furthermore, the number of imprisoned African Americans is even more disproportionate than their relative arrest rate. In 1994, it was estimated that one in 128 American adults was imprisoned one day and one in 17 African American adult males.

No matter what people think of American drug war, one thing is certain, war is disproportionately directed to African Americans. Since the beginning of the drug war in 1980, there were millions of drug-related arrests. African Americans are less likely to use drugs than white people, but between 1980 and 2003, African Americans are three times more likely to arrest drug drug offenses than white people, 225% It was 70% vs. The reason is that drug use and trafficking in cities has become the focus of war compared to cities. In addition, penalties for minority ethnic groups and more common medications were traditionally stricter than those used by whites. Although the effect of cracks and powdered cocaine are very similar, cocaine may be a heavier penalty and it is more likely to be used by blacks who account for nearly 80% of white cracking crimes.

Drug War: "President Reagan officially announced that narcotics crime declined but did not rise in 1982. From the beginning, war has little to do with drug drug crime and almost racial politics There was a political protest encoded racially about crime and welfare issues in order to attract apartheid, bus, and certainly dissatisfied and intimidated poor and white class voters of the working class A part of the great successful Republican strategy to use In his words of Richard Nixon's White House office director HR Haldeman, his question is actually black, their key is to design a system that recognizes this It is that.