Black Men More Likely To Be Jailed For Drug Charges
Posted by Giulia Rozzi on May 12, 2008 at 1:46 pm
CATEGORIES: Human Rights
Human Rights Watch released a new report called Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States which found that blacks are arrested and imprisoned for drug-related crimes at a much higher rate than whites, although whites commit more drug offenses.  The report says that a black man is 12 times more likely to be sent to prison for a drug offense than a white man and a black woman, five times more likely than a white woman.
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CATEGORIES: Human Rights
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i do believe that black people commit more drug crimes and crimes in general. it is my experience in my country that the black community walk around with gold bling and top class clothes and yet they dont appear to work and i also have experience of them trying to sell the products of their crimes. nigerians in particular have been found guilty of serious crime but blacks in general account for crimes that were rarely committed in this country. crack is one drug never found here until these people illegially found there way here and several other atm and computer crimes that these POOR UNDEREDUCATED PEOPLE are committing. I would like to see them sent home as we have enough of our own criminals here.