Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't use the drug at higher rates and even though their numbers in the general population are so low. How could that be? The thing is, you place all your resources in communities of color. And if you do that, you're going to arrest black people.
Carl HartWhen you have the national narrative being "crack is awful and black people are using it," why go against that narrative when you want to get that publication in The New York Times or wherever? It encourages people to play right into it.
Carl HartWe should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.
Carl HartI don't want to be on the bandwagon of dogging any president or anybody in positions where they have all these different constituencies.
Carl Hart