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Part of the reason the black families you compare yourself to are fatherless is because those fathers are in jail for drug offenses are a result of arrests and prosecutions for those offenses being higher when it comes to blacks rather than whites.  Maybe if the police spent the same focus throwing all the meth head dads in jail, your experience would be different.  [/quote]

As a white person, if cops were throwing white meth heads (or other white druggies) in jail, I certainly wouldn't fault them. I'd rather get these folks away from kids and other innocent people who don't need to see or deal with this behavior.

Furthermore, there was an article in the Post addressing WHY blacks dealing drugs were more likely to be arrested:

[quote]This partly reflects racial differences in the drug markets in black and white communities. In poor black neighborhoods, drugs tend to be sold outdoors, in the open. In white neighborhoods, by contrast, drug transactions typically happen indoors, often between friends and acquaintances. If you sell drugs outside, you're much more likely to get caught. Rothwell's numbers shoot some holes into some oft-repeated drug warrior talking points: that people don't get arrested for nonviolent drug crime as much as they used to (false), and that legalizing and decriminalizing certain drugs won't magically solve racial disparities in the criminal justice system (true, although the chart above suggests it could help).[/quote]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/30/white-people-are-more-likely-to-deal-drugs-but-black-people-are-more-likely-to-get-arrested-for-it
White people are more likely to deal drugs, but black people are more likely to get arrested for it

So should cops be patrolling the inside of homes now in order to level the playing field?  Or should they simply ignore the drug dealings they see on a regular basis?

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