There was not a humanizing biography of the people in the story. In , Black people were still being arrested at a rate more than twice that of white people for cocaine, the Network found.
Black people in 21 states were arrested at a rate at least three times higher than white people for narcotics and cocaine offenses combined in Even though heroin and prescription opioids are more deadly, the Network found there were nearly four times more arrests for cocaine than opioid drugs in Far more Black people 85, were arrested for cocaine than white people were arrested for heroin and other opioids 66, that year.
Policymakers have done little to address the racially discriminatory impact of the war on drugs. Congress reduced the disparity between powder cocaine and crack from to 1 to 18 to 1 in , but experts say that ratio has no basis in science and the Network found it perpetuates the double standard for people convicted of crack offenses in the federal court system, who are overwhelmingly Black.
Meanwhile, people with convictions for nonviolent drug offenses and their families continue to suffer the consequences of an unfair system. At the federal level, people with drug offenses have been barred from receiving public assistance and housing benefits, federal student aid, and even veteran benefits.
As the Network reports , drug convictions often prevent people from getting steady jobs, voting in elections, and living in desirable housing. Drug Laws. Racial Bias. He told the Network: The stigma was so wrong for African Americans. Despite the more compassionate view of drug addiction today, racial inequities in drug arrests and sentencings persist.
But racial disparities persist. Hansen observed: When the articles mentioned Black and Latino opioid users, it was a crime report, their criminal history, their court appearances were described, their personal history was not described.
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