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Evaluating the Drug War on Its 40th Birthday, by the Numbers Infographic

Evaluating the Drug War on Its 40th Birthday, by the Numbers

by Akiba Solomon, Stokely Baksh on June 17 2011, 11:40AM

Forty years and $1 trillion in, the war on drugs hasn’t worked—unless locking up a massive number of black and brown people was the plan all along.

Topics: Akiba Solomon, Criminal Justice, Drug War

Report: Blacks and Latinos Make Up 86 Percent of Pot Arrests in NYC

Report: Blacks and Latinos Make Up 86 Percent of Pot Arrests in NYC

by Julianne Hing on February 15 2011, 12:30PM

If ever a person needed more salient proof of systemic inequities in criminal justice system, these numbers seem to provide it.

Topics: Criminal Justice

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