Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Two Graphs

Let this graph sink in:

Graph showing that while the rate of drug addiction has been pretty constant since 1970, the amount of money spent to stop drugs has skyrocketed
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And then combine it with this pie chart:

Two pie charts, one showing whites as 72% and blacks as 13% of drug users, while whites are 25%  and blacks are 60% of drug prisoners
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And remember -- ex-felons increasingly are not allowed to vote. I really must read Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

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