Drug trafficking in the United States: Blacks are treated unfairly when it comes to drugs.

Cheryl Cooper

English Composition 11

Instructor Lesa Hadley

01/18/2012

When it comes to drug trafficking in the United States most African Americans and minorities are treated unfairly when it comes to drug charges being handed down from the criminal justice system.

“Critics of American drug policies have long said that war on drugs is really a war on people. Today, the Justice Policy Institute is releasing a new study chock- full of jaw- dropping statistics to prove it. One in four people locked up in American prisons is behind bars for a drug offense, the study finds. They number almost as many as the entire US prisoner population did in 1980 (458,131 vs. 474,368). The study adds that the US incarcerates 100, 000 more people for drug offenses than there are people imprisoned for all offenses in the entire European Union even though the EU has 100 million more citizens than the US. Other stats show how America’s war on drugs has been waged disproportionately against African Americans.”

The groups that are mainly targeted in the drug trafficking in the United States are minorities and African Americans. This is a worldwide problem and it needs some immediate attention do to the lack of fairness that is presented when it comes to whites committing the same charges. There are issues and concerns when it comes to racial profiling that takes place in poor low income communities and schools which places minorities along with blacks at the center of attention for not being treated equally.

This has been a wide spread epidemic that has hit different levels of American society. It has been found in high schools to boardrooms to homes across America. This wide spread epidemic of drugs is being waged by educators, business leaders, politicians,