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by Rich Smith • Mar 17, 2021 at 9:00 am
The people who work under this dome will decide whether to reinstate one of the drug war s foundational policies. They might want to look at this data first. YINYANG / GETTY
Though we know that Black and white people use and sell drugs at similar rates, a new analysis of state sentencing data shows that Black people were convicted of simple drug possession at disproportionally high rates relative to their population in nearly every county in Washington. The same is true for Native Americans. Conversely, in the vast majority of counties, white people were convicted of possession at much lower rates relative to their population.
More than 3,000 incidents of abuse against Asian Americans were reported between March and December 2020, according to Asian American advocacy groups. There were only 216 reported cases in 2019, according to FBI statistics.
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