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In reply to the discussion: Obama shouldn't 'evolve' on anything. [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)I can think of quite a few fellow parents and grandparents I know who have children or grandchildren whose lives are being screwed up over the drug war one way or another and of the ones who don't they all have friends who do.
Bear in mind that a substantial plurality of young American men are arrested before they are twenty three and a lot of those arrests are over a drug charge. A lot of these young men have families that care for them, brothers, sisters, parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles and so on, it's easy to get a conversation started about this subject with almost anyone. They are all for law and order until it become their nephew or daughter caught up in the system. It's a subject a lot of people are persuadable on if you approach it the right way.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-49-black-men-38-white-men-arrested-by-age-23/
The study, released Monday, and which was led by Robert Brame, a criminology professor at the University of South Carolina, analyzed national survey data collected from 1997 to 2008 that looked at the arrest histories of teenagers and young adults from truancy and underage drinking to more serious and violent offenses. The data excluded arrests for minor traffic violations.
According to a news release from the University of South Carolina, the survey data showed that by age 18, 30 percent of black males, 26 percent of Hispanic males and 22 percent of white males have been arrested.
By the age of 23, 49 percent of black males, 44 percent of Hispanic males and 38 percent of white males have been arrested.