Drugs.

What has skyrocketed over the years are not our nation’s crime rates—which have actually fallen below the international norm—but the number of drug convictions in the U.S. as a result of our declared “War on Drugs.” Many people assume next that of course Black criminals are being incarcerated for drug crimes at record rates because they are the ones committing them.

Marian Wright Edelman: The New Jim Crow: Social Control, Social Death Marian Wright Edelman 2011

What has skyrocketed over the years are not our nation’s crime rates—which have actually fallen below the international norm—but the number of drug convictions in the U.S. as a result of our declared “War on Drugs.” Many people assume next that of course Black criminals are being incarcerated for drug crimes at record rates because they are the ones committing them.

Marian Wright Edelman: The New Jim Crow: Social Control, Social Death Marian Wright Edelman 2011

What has skyrocketed over the years are not our nation’s crime rates—which have actually fallen below the international norm—but the number of drug convictions in the U.S. as a result of our declared “War on Drugs.” Many people assume next that of course Black criminals are being incarcerated for drug crimes at record rates because they are the ones committing them.

Marian Wright Edelman: The New Jim Crow: Social Control, Social Death Marian Wright Edelman 2011

What has skyrocketed over the years are not our nation’s crime rates—which have actually fallen below the international norm—but the number of drug convictions in the U.S. as a result of our declared “War on Drugs.” Many people assume next that of course Black criminals are being incarcerated for drug crimes at record rates because they are the ones committing them.

Marian Wright Edelman: The New Jim Crow: Social Control, Social Death Marian Wright Edelman 2011

What has skyrocketed over the years are not our nation’s crime rates—which have actually fallen below the international norm—but the number of drug convictions in the U.S. as a result of our declared “War on Drugs.” Many people assume next that of course Black criminals are being incarcerated for drug crimes at record rates because they are the ones committing them.

Marian Wright Edelman: The New Jim Crow: Social Control, Social Death Marian Wright Edelman 2011

What has skyrocketed over the years are not our nation’s crime rates—which have actually fallen below the international norm—but the number of drug convictions in the U.S. as a result of our declared “War on Drugs.” Many people assume next that of course Black criminals are being incarcerated for drug crimes at record rates because they are the ones committing them.

Marian Wright Edelman: The New Jim Crow: Social Control, Social Death Marian Wright Edelman 2011

What has skyrocketed over the years are not our nation’s crime rates—which have actually fallen below the international norm—but the number of drug convictions in the U.S. as a result of our declared “War on Drugs.” Many people assume next that of course Black criminals are being incarcerated for drug crimes at record rates because they are the ones committing them.

Marian Wright Edelman: The New Jim Crow: Social Control, Social Death Marian Wright Edelman 2011

Clinical Handbook of the Psychotropic Drugs. 3rd ed.

The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993