Crack Cocaine Racial Disparity
“After” The War On Drugs: – December 2011
The Sentencing Commission also noted the obvious racial disparity associated with federal crack cocaine cases, prompting the Commission to declare in 2004 that “[r]evising the crack cocaine thresholds would better reduce the [sentencing] gap than any other single policy change, and it would … Get Content Here
Racial Disparities In Justice Processing
White drug arrest rate ?Rates of drug use and delivery explain little of this racial disparity ?The focus on crack cocaine is the primary cause of racial disparity in Seattle drug arrests … Retrieve Document
Appendix D SUMMARY OF WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT ON COCAINE …
Between crack cocaine and powder cocaine sentences without decreasing the powder cocaine mandatory minimum threshold quantities. According to LDF, decreasing powder cocaine thresholds is unjustified and would add to the racial disparity in sentencing by increasing the … Retrieve Full Source
Testimony Of Marc Mauer Executive Director The Sentencing Project
For cases involving powder cocaine, crack cocaine or heroin, which comprised 53% of all drug cases, at least 80% of the defendants were either Black or Hispanic. Crack cocaine cases had the highest proportion of racial and ethnic disparity, with 89% of defendants being either Black or Hispanic. … Fetch Content
Hearing On Retroactivity Of The Fair Sentencing Act Of 2010 …
It would be anomalous for the Commission, having just promulgated Parts A and C of Amendment 2 to implement the Fair Sentencing Act and avoid future inequity, now to leave defendants whose sentences are already tainted by the extreme racial disparity of the prior crack–cocaine sentencing regime … Retrieve Content
David Levenson
In other words, powder and crack cocaine are not sufficiently distinguishable to justify the 100:1 ratio. The reasons congress puts out are simply a cover for the true motivations; racism, elitism and a general unwillingness to rehabilitate instead of incarce. rate. There racial disparity present … Read Document
Re: Comments On Retroactivity Of Permanent crack cocaine …
Adding enhancements back into the calculation would frustrate the purpose of the crack guideline reductions, which were intended to lessen crack sentences, reduce racial disparity, and better account for the relative harm of crack cocaine. … Content Retrieval
ACIAL ISPARITY IN RUG AW NFORCEMENT ROBLEM EY OINTS
Law enforcement’s focus on crack cocaine – despite the presence of other serious drugs in the City – drives the extreme racial disparity in Seattle arrest rates. … Fetch Document
Written Testimony Of Bill Piper Director Of National Affairs …
Americans, but by lowering powder thresholds it would most likely increase racial disparities for Hispanics – an unacceptable trade-off. When the crack/powder sentencing disparity was enacted into law in the 1980s, crack cocaine … Access Content
ACE AND LASS ENALTIES IN RACK OCAINE ENTENCING
Describe federal crack sentencing policy as “an indefensible sentencing differential (that is) unconscionable in light of its racial impact.”17 Reforming the Crack Cocaine and Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity … Read Content
URGENT ACTION ALERT
Urgent action alert date: july 28, 2010 to: concerned parties from: hilary o. shelton, director, washington bureau u.s. house poised to consider naacp-supported legislation reducing racial discrimination in crack cocaine and powder cocaine sentencing disparity today crucial bill begins reducing … Get Content Here
Health Care Disparities Among Out-of Treatment Cocaine Users …
Health care disparity. These factors were evaluated among 961 street-recruited cocaine users’ baseline Racial disparities may be compounded by gender. While AA women receive of treatment crack cocaine and injection drug users from 1994 to 1999.16,17 … Read Full Source
RACE AND DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT IN SEATTLE
For delivering crack cocaine were black. This focus on crack is thus a leading cause of racial disparity in drug delivery arrests. 7 Arr ests that we r th result of buy-bust op ations, rev rse buy-bust ope ations, search … Retrieve Doc
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN SENTENCING Lieutenant Lewis Bray …
disparity in the jail time given out far exceeds the racial difference in drug use. Black and white drug offenders get radically different treatment in the American justice system. Another reason the disparity is the prevalence use of crack cocaine among black males versus powered cocaine use among … View Full Source