Title: 18 Examples Of Racism In The Criminal Legal System | HuffPost
Headings: 18 Examples Of Racism In The Criminal Legal System
18 Examples Of Racism In The Criminal Legal System
1. Police Stops
2. Police Searches
3. Police Use of Force During Arrest
4. Juvenile Arrests
5. Arrests in the Transgender Community
6. Arrests for Drugs
7. Police Arrests for Marijuana
8. Pre-Trial Release
9. Prosecution Charges
10. Prison vs. Community Service
11. Length of Incarceration
12. State Drug Incarceration
13. Federal Drug Convictions
14. Federal Court Sentencing
15. Incarceration of Women
16. Sentencing to Life Without Parole
17. Hiring People With Criminal Records
18. Eliminating the Right to Vote
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Content: Arrests for Drugs
Start with the fact that whites and blacks use and abuse drugs at about the same rates. This is proven by the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This study found drug and alcohol abuse among whites and blacks nearly the same with blacks reporting one percent higher on drug use than whites while whites have three percent higher rates of binge alcohol and one percent higher rates of substance abuse or dependence. But when it comes to drug arrests, Blacks are arrested at a rate more than twice their percentage in the population. Twenty nine percent of drug arrests, according to FBI statistics, are of African American people. 7. Police Arrests for Marijuana
While marijuana use is similar in black and white communities, blacks are 3.73 times as likely to be arrested for possession of marijuana as whites. 8. Pre-Trial Release
The National Academy of Sciences found that blacks are more likely than whites to be incarcerated while awaiting trial. 9.