re: TX newspaper follows asset forfeitures in 4 counties w/ predictable results...

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This failed war on drugs, at least at this point, has overall little to do with race that I can see but everything to do with incentives—federal funding, civil asset forfeiture, votes for looking like the “toughest” on crime i.e. more arrests but lower quality arrests.

Change my mind.

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It won’t simplify into a short OT lounge post. I think it’s less directly racial than some claim but I also think many of the alternative explanations have reasons underpinning them that are correlated to vulnerable communities and those communities often skewing racially

I’ll also say in some municipalities race is definitely a much larger factor than others.