Research shows that blacks make up 50 percent of all drug arrests in the U.S. There is a large arrest gap between blacks and whites for marijuana. Even though whites use drugs at the same rate, blacks are far more likely to be arrested for selling or possessing drugs than whites. This may be due in part to the use of “racial profiling.” In New Jersey, traffic was documented and it shows that 61 percent of drivers stopped and arrested were African-American, while only 15 percent of cars had a black driver or occupant. In the same period state data was estimated and it shows that blacks and whites had the same rate of traffic violations. A study in Maryland a few years later showed similar results: 13 percent of traffic-code violators were black,
