re: #162 moderatelyradicalliberal

If the police did regular raids on the homes of white neighborhoods like they do minority neighborhoods, how many people do you think would be arrested for drug possession? We lock up the people in this country who we want to lock up for what we want to lock them up for. Mass incarceration of white people ain’t what this country wants and if incarceration rates for illicit drug use reflected who was using drugs, that’s what we would have.

I’m not talking about possession, which is not to say that is not part of the problem. I am talking of the dealing and distribution which is criminal enterprise and everything that goes with it. That is why I think we should do much more towards legalization.