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“This numbers-driven system… leads to the intensification of existing inequities through differential police scrutiny… In 2010, 86 percent of those arrested in New York City for marijuana possession were black or Latino, but… whites use marijuana at higher rates."
Institutional Racism, Numbers Management, and Zero-Tolerance Policing in New York City
North American Dialogue
Vol. 18 Issue 2, pp. 51–62,
2015
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