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Racial Profiling

raiding, and searching black communities. In the media, drug use is portrayed as a “black problem” or a “minority problem.” It is good public policy to hold a press conference and announce the recent “victories” in the drug wars, which invariably come at the expense of the black and poor communities.
Police ignore the drug use in suburbia and white neighborhoods, spending almost all their efforts in the media prescribed “drug areas” of the country: Poor, urban, and usually black comunities.
After arrest, the inequalities between blacks and whites is even more magnified. Among...

Posted by: Amy Hetzel

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