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mwclarkson
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Jim Crow part 2: the return of Jim Crow
Providence RI USA
jhamill
3470 days ago
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Important.
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HarlandCorbin
3468 days ago
Important, yes, but. How about the breakdown of drug users vs. drug dealERs who are in prison? Is there a difference between the categorization of users vs dealers? I'm not trying to say that the racial breakdown seems disproportionate, but this chart is not quite comparing apples to apples. (edited to fix a typo, which is in CAPS).
sfrazer
3468 days ago
roughly 4/5ths of arrests are for possession vs sales: http://www.bjs.gov/content/dcf/enforce.cfm
sfrazer
3468 days ago
And whites are slightly more likely to be sellers than blacks (4th paragraph): http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/30/white-people-are-more-likely-to-deal-drugs-but-black-people-are-more-likely-to-get-arrested-for-it/
michaelglass
3468 days ago
@sfrazer thanks!
HarlandCorbin
3468 days ago
Now, those additions add context and make the chart make more sense. I'll mark these articles to read later. Thank you sfrazer.

While You Were Getting Worked Up Over Oil Prices, Solar Power Became Just As Cheap As Fossil Fuels

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After years of struggling against cheap natural gas prices and variable subsidies, solar electricity is on track to be as cheap or cheaper than average electricity-bill prices in 47 U.S. states — in 2016, according to a Deutsche Bank report published this week.
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