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Using Data to Make Sense of a Racial Disparity in NYC Marijuana Arrests

Why is it that white people largely don’t get arrested for smoking weed, while black and Hispanic people do? Times reporters put a police official’s explanation to the test. [Source]

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Origin: nytimes.com

Category: Marijuana

Topics: people, explanation, official’s, police, reporters, Times, Hispanic, black, while, smoking, arrested, don’t, largely, white, Arrests, Marijuana, Disparity, Racial, Sense, Using

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/insider/data-marijuana-arrests-racial-disparity.html?partner=rss&emc=rss