Cocaine: Will Congress act? From: The New Crisis | Date: September 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright Crisis Publishing Company, Incorporated Sep/Oct 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

New Rules Could Lessen Perceived Race Bias

Most illegal drug users in the United States are white, but 95 percent of the respondents in a 1995 survey described a black person when asked how they envisioned a typical illegal drug user.

Among the factors that feed this biased perception are the arrest, conviction, and sentencing patterns for drug offenses, especially cocaine. According to recent figures, 15 percent of the nation's reported cocaine users are African Americans, but they comprise about 40 percent of people charged with powder cocaine violations and nearly 90 percent of those ...

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