“Another day, another piece of evidence showing a vast disparity in who gets arrested over drugs.
From a new Brookings Institute analysis by fellow Jonathan Rothwell released yesterday.
The chart shows that arrests of African-Americans for violent and property crimes have gone down since 1980 but drug related arrests have skyrocketed. Black Americans are 3.6 times more likely to be arrested for selling drugs and 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for possessing them, Brookings Institute found.” *
Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian), Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur), Wes Clark Jr & Jimmy Dore (http://www.twitter.com/jimmy_dore) break it down.
* Read more from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/black-people-arrest_n_5914566.html