Racial Profiling Continues to Shape Our Prison Population

I'm going have to go ahead and disagree with that. I am not racist. However, in the area that I am from, I tend to believe blacks use illegal drugs at a higher percentage than whites. And probably one reason they get caught (and I understand we are talking about "use" here) is because blacks tend to peddle their goods at a higher rate and more likely to do it in public. I don't know one hundred percent of the subject but those results would be believable in my area. I don't see white people standing on the street corners too often around metro.

It is just a fact that people of color are no more likely to use drugs than whites. Of course, there are places one can go to find people of color engaged in drug activity, but open markets are a socioeconomic phenomena that isn't defined by race alone. In low-income communities, crime takes place in the open because many people don't have private spaces.

Obviously, simply searching and arresting young black and Hispanic men for drugs doesn't prove that young black and Hispanic men are more likely to have drugs. Think about this: if the police in your area believe, as you do, that most of the drug users in the area are black, who will they be watching? Who will they stop? Who will they be asking for permission to search? Paying more attention to black men ensures that you'll be arresting more black men, and so the cycle continues with each new arrest further justifying the profile.

If you had to walk past a cop with drugs in your pocket, would you rather be white or black?

After untold countless dollars spent on this "war", drugs are now cheaper than ever and much more readily available. Just as in the prohibition era, a multitude of fortunes have been made off society's attempts to regulate morality. Criminals seem to love it when something is made illegal. I wonder why that is.

The "war" has however succeeded in the construction of many new prisons and lots of bodies to fill them. The majority of these new prisons also seem to be operated by private industry. Must be some good money to be made by locking people up for smoking a joint, snorting a line, or whatever their flavor is.

How do you end the war??

TAKE THE PROFIT OUT OF IT!!! Legalize it!! You will still make some money by catching them driving under the influence etc.. However, who in their right mind would fly a private plane to Bogota, Columbia and buy a load of cocaine if they couldn't sell it for a profit?

Answer -- NOBODY!

Yes, you will still have some who get it to experiment. Yes, you will still have some junkies. You will also have some teenagers overdose. Just like we do now. HOWEVER, the majority of the problem will be gone because there would be no money in it.

Then you could close most of those new prisons at untold taxpayer savings. You could also get rid of the bloated, inefficient, government agency created to fix the situation. There would also be a significant reduction in the % of the population now being forced to attend those new crime colleges we like to call prison.

Honestly people, I'm asking you seriously, when have you ever seen the government solve any problem without creating a bigger mess than what they started with. The next thing they tell you is that they are under-staffed, under-budgeted, etc. etc. Leave the government where it should be. Building roads and providing for a national defense. Let the free market handle the rest.

History has proven, time and again, that there is not now and never has been a good government. All governments throughout history have eventually subjugated its citizens. The sad part is that the American people believe they are unique. The American people refuse to believe that any government, or authority, would not be acting in the best interest of the citizens.

I am afraid that the American people have slept too long this time. I fear that it is too late to put this country back on the right path. The path where the government serves the people and fears the people. The reality is that the people now fear the government.

After failing to win the war on drugs, now we entrust them to win the war on terror? Has every adult lost their mind? You are willing to give up your constitutional rights for a little illusion of security? The men who fought and died to defend this country and it's constitution must be so ashamed of what we have become.

John, yes good answer - NOBODY.

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