The War on Some Drugs creates no end of problems, including clogging the justice system and eroding the Fourth Amendment. Now comes a study that shows we can add unequal justice to the ledger. (As if we didn’t know.) The Justice Policy Institute has documented ridiculous disparities in how Texas counties incarcerate drug offenders based on the color of their skin. Dallas County, which incarcerates nine blacks for every white drug offender, isn’t even the worst. Travis County’s ratio was 31 to one. (Hat tip Grits.)
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