Verkkoat the heights of the war on drugs, federal law allowed violent drug offenders to be prosecuted in gang conspiracy cases, which often pinned homicides. Verkkoto uncover structural racism, we propose a framework that captures the relationship between drug policies and enforcement practices, racialized mass. Verkkowar on drugs, the effort in the united states since the 1970s to combat illegal drug use by greatly increasing penalties, enforcement, and. Verkkoin heroin crisis, white families seek gentler war on drugs. New york times oct. Verkkothe drug war drives mass incarceration and racial disparities in u. s. Judicial systems there were more than 1. 5 million drug arrests in the u. s.
