Disparity By Geography: The War on Drugs in America's Cities

This new report from the Sentencing Project documents the growth in drug arrests at the city-level between 1980 and 2003 and the role of the "war on drugs" in expanding racial disparity in the criminal justice system.

The extreme variations in arrest rates among cities raise critical questions about the effect of local policy decisions, not overall drug use rates, in driving law enforcement patterns. 

http://www.sentencingproject.org/Admin/Documents/publications/dp_drugarrestreport.pdf

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Publication Year: 2008