The Author of the Text Outlines a Study Completed in Seattle

question 103

Multiple Choice

The author of the text outlines a study completed in Seattle that looked at statistics associated with Seattle's war on drugs and their success in fighting that war. While Seattle is 70% White, two-thirds of those arrested for drug violations are Black. Further, most of the arrests have specifically targeted drug markets that are predominantly Black. What do the researchers conclude about the police department's drug enforcement efforts?

• A) They are consciously targeting the Blacks in their community.
• B) They are unconsciously perceiving Blacks as the primary cause of the city's drug problems.
• C) They are consciously seeing the Whites as the primary cause of the city's drug problems, but they want to clean up the Black problem first, since it is smaller.
• D) They are simply arresting those that are more accessible to them.

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