Gin up stats? Like those directly from US gov agencies? huh?
The federal government released a new batch of data Monday about drug prosecutions in 2016, and the statistics show that African-Americans and Hispanics are still prosecuted far more frequently than white people for nearly every type of drug crime.
https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/...tatistics-show
The black share of people arrested for drug offenses has ranged from 23 percent (in 1980) to 41 percent (in 1991). Blacks remain far more likely than whites to be arrested for selling drugs (3.6 times more likely) or possessing drugs (2.5 times more likely).
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/socia...cial-mobility/