This is an extraordinarily important report, which I expect the nrxns to ignore.
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@St_Rev e.g. could there be racial disparities in the likelihood of being in circumstances where enforcement occurs? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2561263/ … -
@sarahdoingthing They get arrested because they're dumber/more careless? 3.8x more careless? That's really reaching. -
@St_Rev It's not about "careless" - much deeper and more sad cultural patterns. -
@St_Rev There is some racism in enforcement and it magnifies the existing racism in e.g. being on a corner at night/driving a crappy car -
@St_Rev Worse: the horrible, destructive hammer they have is what they use, and it's not "about" stopping marijuana use in the slightest. -
@sarahdoingthing Yeah. I'd expect a Bayesian magnifying effect if there were an underlying disparity in true offense rates. - 1 more reply
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing like with stop and frisk? -
@drethelin@sarahdoingthing NY's racial disparity is absurdly high IIRC. It's in the ACLU report. -
@St_Rev@drethelin that's why I linked the previous thing about open-smoking arrests predominating.
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