our own @housejudiciary is one of many voices to emphasize the existential threat posed by our criminally overcrowded mass incarceration system.https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2893 …
Of course white poe0ple use street drugs, the difference is that they aren't arrested for them, and when they are they can afford attorneys to affect and plead the result. As @chesaboudin unhappily notes, although 5% of our population is black in sf they are 55% of our jailed
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Furthermore, whereas Blacks were twice as likely as Whites to be arrested on a felony drug charge before Prop 47, they became three times as likely as Whites to experience this outcome one year after the law’s implementation.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050822/ …
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