CRM 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Brian Mulroney, Crack Cocaine, Racial Profiling
7 Nov 2016
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Research shows that low level mj users and dealers were targeted. 62% of drug arrests were for marijuana, 75% were possession charges. Racialized individuals have been policed ever since we had organized police forces. Historically, law enforcement officials have considered racialized minority groups to be responsible for the spread of illicit drug use. Sociologist clayton mosher discovered that, at the turn of the century, asians were. Portrayed as being disproportionately involved in drug and public-order crimes , while. Blacks were described as prone to involvement in drug and other public-order offences such as gambling and prostitution . The first anti-opium laws in the 1870s were directed at chinese immigrants. The first anti-cocaine laws, in the south in the early 1900s were directed at black men. The first anti-marijuana laws, in the midwest and southwest in the 1910s and 1920s, were directed at mexican migrants and mexican americans.
