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Black Prosecutors Deny Drug Arrest Bias (Video And Pictures)
Blacks are eight times more likely to be arrested than whites for marijuana possession, according to stats compiled by the ACLU. The disparity is greater in three states and the District of Columbia, while nationally, African-Americans are 3.73 times more likely to undergo arrests than whites for illicit narcotic use.
Despite these overwhelming statistics recited by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) and black congressmen, federal prosecutors still deny there is a racial component to enforcement, arrest and incarceration of drug offenders in America.
North Carolina Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Evenson told the panel — which included pro-reform African-American legislators Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) — that prosecutors like him “represent poor communities of color who are sick and tired of that drug trafficker abiding by that kind of behavior in the district.” (Atlanta Daily World)
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