The proportion of people incarcerated for a drug related charge in state prison who are black or Latino is 57 percent. These groups of people use and sell drugs at similar rates to whites even, yet they are arrested more. What makes this statistic even worse is that these groups of people only make up 20% of the population. This mere fact should show that racial minorities are being targeted in this drug war. Over the years there has been a stereotype of drug users and sellers. The reason that a lot of minorities get arrested as opposed to white people is because law enforcement focuses on urban areas, lower-income communities, and on communities of color (“Race and the Drug War” 1). There is a blatant depiction of the injustices that is happening in the legal system when you go into a prison. The prison population is predominantly full of
The proportion of people incarcerated for a drug related charge in state prison who are black or Latino is 57 percent. These groups of people use and sell drugs at similar rates to whites even, yet they are arrested more. What makes this statistic even worse is that these groups of people only make up 20% of the population. This mere fact should show that racial minorities are being targeted in this drug war. Over the years there has been a stereotype of drug users and sellers. The reason that a lot of minorities get arrested as opposed to white people is because law enforcement focuses on urban areas, lower-income communities, and on communities of color (“Race and the Drug War” 1). There is a blatant depiction of the injustices that is happening in the legal system when you go into a prison. The prison population is predominantly full of