Drug Enforcement’s Unintended Effects
October 13, 2016
10/13/16 – Criminalizing drug possession has caused “dramatic and unnecessary harms” in many African American communities, two major human and civil rights organizations concluded in a new report described here that called for changes in how governments deal with drug enforcement. In a related look at the effects of mass incarceration on communities of color, a legal scholar and a judge have argued in Issues that there may well be a tipping point at which rigorous crime policies and practices can do more harm than good.