Subj : Muslims
To   : Dale Shipp
From : Lee Lofaso
Date : Thu Dec 15 2022 00:44:44

Hello Dale,

 MP>> Disportionate arrests happen because the persons commiting those
 MP>> crimes are, in urban areas, disportionately black.

Cocaine is cocaine, dude. But that is not the issue.

 DS> Partly true, but look at the arrests and the term of jail time for
 DS> cocaine.  White people were the primary users of cocaine powder.  Black
 DS> people mostly used crack cocaine.  The term of sentences for crack were
 DS> larger than those for powder cocaine.  I don't know why, but that used to
 DS> be true (but may have been modified to put penalty for each in parity).

It is not a question as to who uses cocaine, or in what form they
use it. It is a question of what form that cocaine is distributed as.
IOW, the amount one is sentenced for is the same for each category,
regardless of race. But since more black folks distribute crack ...

From the ACLU -

A comprehensive examination of the 100-to-1 crack versus powder cocaine
sentencing disparity under which distribution of just 5 grams of crack
carries a minimum 5-year federal prison sentence, while distribution of
500 grams of powder cocaine carries the same 5-year mandatory minimum
sentence.

Feel free to download the entire report. Shows some twenty years
of federal discrepancy ...

For Life,
Lee

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