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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
Time: 10:24 pm
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Results for marijuana arrests
1 results foundAuthor: Levine, Harry G. Title: Arresting Blacks for Marijuana in California: Possession Arrests in 25 Cities, 2006-08 Summary: From 1990 through 2009, police departments in California made 850,000 arrests for possessing small amounts of marijuana, and half a million marijuana possession arrests in the last ten years. Since 1990, arrests for nearly every serious crime have declined in California. Yet arrests for possession of marijuana, usually for very small amounts, have tripled. In 2009 alone, police departments in California made 61,000 marijuana possession arrests. The people arrested were disproportionately African Americans and Latinos, and overwhelmingly young people, especially young men. The substantial disparities in marijuana possession arrest rates of whites and blacks cannot be explained by their patterns of marijuana use. This new report shows the racial disparities in the marijuana possession arrest rates of whites and blacks in 25 California cities. Police in these 25 major cities have arrested blacks for marijuana possession at four, five, six, seven, and up to twelve times the rate of whites. The cities discussed here have 10 million residents, about a quarter of California's total population. They have a combined African American population of nearly a million, almost half of all blacks in California. The arrest numbers for these 25 cities were obtained from the Justice Statistics Center of the California Department of Justice. The arrest and census data is averaged for three years, 2006 through 2008, to show that these racially-skewed or biased arrests were not a one-year fluke, but a consistent pattern extending over several years. Details: Los Angeles: Drug Policy Alliance, 2010. 22p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 4, 2011 at: http://www.drugpolicy.org/docUploads/ArrestingBlacks.pdf Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: http://www.drugpolicy.org/docUploads/ArrestingBlacks.pdf Shelf Number: 121224 Keywords: Drug Offenses (California)Marijuana ArrestsRacial Disparities |