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Advocates urge data-driven review after CJCJ says Black residents face disproportionate drug arrests
Summary
The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice presented analysis showing large racial disparities in drug arrests; commissioners and SFPD leaders acknowledged past data problems, said reporting is improving and invited collaboration on updated analysis and public access to corrected data.
The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) told the Police Commission it has documented decades-long racial disparities in San Francisco drug arrests and urged a data-driven reevaluation of enforcement priorities.
Selena Tejdi of CJCJ said African Americans made up roughly 6% of San Francisco’s population but accounted for 54% of drug sales arrests and 40% of drug possession arrests in the city in the analysis cited to the…
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