Per Capita, Whites Use Drugs 5X More Frequently Than Blacks. Blacks Arrested 10 X As Often

America's War On Black And Brown Youth

http://rt.com/op-edge/americas-war-on-black-and-brown-youth-602/

Using data collected from the 2010 Census, Justin Wolfers, David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy, writing for The Upshot in the New York Times, attempt to account for those African-American males "'missing" from everyday life in the U.S.A. They are "missing" in the sense that they are, for the most part, either dead from premature or unnatural causes-- such as homicide--or imprisoned.  They are not part of what we know as society. They are completely absent. They do not count, except as statistics.  Black males, for example, are six times more likely to be imprisoned than white males.  The biggest reason they are imprisoned is for drug-related offenses. Blacks make up 50% of the people incarcerated for drug crimes in state and local prisons, at a rate 10 times more than whites, even though five times as many whites use drugs as do African-Americans.