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It is the UK drug scheduling. I think it would correlate with the US' schedule III, basically possession of a class C drug is a fine or warning based on officer's discretion.
The numbers say otherwise. Caucasian youths are statistically speaking FAR more likely to use illegal drugs than their minority peers, but minorities are arrested at rates twice to three times their numbers for drug offenses. Let's face it, police do not patrol the suburbs like they do the inner city, and if they did hit the burbs as hard as they do to the inner city, the drug war would over in a few decades.
I've patrolled both, and the situations in which you can find drug offenders are vastly different.
Its not like there is a radar that says "BEEP BEEP WHITE TEENS USING MARIJUANA OVER HERE BEEP" an you get to decide whether or not to go find them.
White kids using pot in the safety of their own backyards where no crime trends have been occurring and nobody has called for police assistance in the area for any reason, chances are they are going to get away with it. (Which is fine by me).
When a group of black kids in the inner city are hanging out at the basketball court in their neighborhood where police get a high number of calls for service due to gang related activity in the area, they are at a higher risk of getting caught because the police are going to have a tighter patrol of that neighborhood so that they can be close by when the next call comes in. This is what we call a "hot spot".
This is very simple to understand if the reader is TRYING to understand it instead of trying to find a way to poke holes in the scenario to prove some assumption based off of crime statistics.
Generally speaking, your are at a higher risk of getting caught when doing something if you are hanging out in an area where police frequently get calls for service for crime related activity than you are if you are hanging out in an area that is GENERALLY problem free.
Unfortunately, the fact that minorities typically live in these areas is not controllable by law enforcement. Whether one wants to assert that opinion or not.