also, black kids are also more likely to do drugs than white kids. the judicial system is biased, but also we cant overlook the fact that blacks in america are more troubled because of all the past crap.

Mike: not sure if that's relevant to the stat I posted, seeing as it referred to drug offenses, i.e. the 'crime' had already been committed. Besides that, I'm not sure if that's necessarily true; it's certainly a strong stereotype, but white kids do a whole lotta drugs too.

But white kids tend to not get caught or have their sentences knocked down to possession or some other misdemeanor, where black kids are smacked with harsher crimes, or the sentence is given to the maximum extent of the law. For example, if a white kid and a black kid are both caught with an oz of pot, the white kid is likely to get possession where the black kid is probably going to get possession with intent to sell or trafficking. Substitute crack for pot and now the white guy is doing 6 months and the black kid is doing 5 years. Prosecutors tend to ask for the most punishment possible, as opposed to white kids where prosecutors ask for very little punishment. These are gross generalizations, but I think statistics indicate this is the case, from the judicial standpoint. At the enforcement level, police just tend to use racial profiling for identifying potential criminals. It's just how they do it. It's stupid, it doesn't really work, but it's how they do it.