1. Racial Profiling and Institutional Racism
Race has played an important role over the years in identifying the communities that became the targets of the drug war, consequently exposing their cultural practices and institutions to military-style attack and police control. Although the drug wars have certainly sought to abolish controlled substances and destroy the net established for their distribution, this is only part of the story. ... As Herbert explained, state's efforts to control drugs are also a way for dominant group to express power. ... In this controversy of how the justice system is unfair, our criminal justice system...
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