Quote Originally Posted by econ21 View Post
According to the article I linked, it's partly higher arrest rates and partly higher rates of imprisonment if arrested. The article focuses on the former, arguing that blacks are more likely to be stopped and searched, and are more intensively policed. It's not just that the white drug users in suburbia get more lenient treatment if caught, they are much less likely to be caught.
I mean, are the authors right? And what's the conclusion supposed to be? As it stands they are just quoting an empty statistic.

I worry about the quality of our debate on this stuf...liberals are far far far to eager to score political points by talking about racist conservatives ( and if they have a chance to work in some pet policy issue of theirs like gun control or the death penalty or drug wars they jump on it) and by now republicans are sick of it and assume anything the liberals say about it is bogus race baiting. Liberals are far too happy to believe the problem is something they enjoy it being. In the end all that's said is a bunch of tv pundit talking point crap.