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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Summary of Findings 1 Introduction 5 Racial Disparity in Seattle Drug Arrests 7 Research Design and Organization of the Report 13 Part I: The Seattle Drug Market 17 Patterns of Drug Use among Seattle Residents 19 The Racial and Ethnic Composition of Drug Deliverers in Seattle 40 Race, Ethnicity and the Seattle Drug Market: Conclusions 44 Part II: Seattle Drug Delivery Arrests 47 2005–2006 Seattle Drug Delivery Arrests 48 Racial Disparity in Seattle Drug Arrests in Comparative Perspective 54 Part III: Explaining Racial Disparity in Seattle Drug Arrests 59 Hypothesis 1: Racial Disparity in Drug Arrests Is a Function 60 of Race Differences in Involvement in Drug Delivery Hypothesis 2: The Focus on Outdoor Drug Markets 73 Explains Racial Disparity in Drug Arrests Hypothesis 3: Racial Disproportionality Stems from the 74 Concentration of Drug Law Enforcement Resources Downtown Hypothesis 4: The Focus on Crack Cocaine Explains Racial 75 Disproportionality in Seattle Drug Arrests Conclusion 99 References 101 Appendices Appendix A: Public Drug Treatment Admissions among 111 Seattle Residents Appendix B: Unreliable 9-1-1 Call Examples 112
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES PAGE TABLES: Table 1. Black and White Drug Arrest Rates and Black/White Arrest 9 Rate Ratio, U.S. Mid-Sized Cities, 2000 Table 2. SAMHSA Survey on Drug Use and Health, Recent Drug Use among 22 Seattle Residents Aged 12 and Older, 2002–2006 Table 3. The Racial and Ethnic Composition of Needle Exchangers 31 Who Recently Obtained Serious Drugs in Seattle Table 4. Race and Ethnicity of Seattle Residents Admitted to Public Drug 34 Treatment Programs by Primary Drug of Abuse and Referral Source, 2006 Table 5. Racial and Ethnic Composition of Observed Drug Purchasers, 39 Capitol Hill and Downtown Seattle, 2007 Table 6. The Racial and Ethnic Composition of Seattle Providers of Serious 42 Drugs, 2007–2008 Seattle-King County Needle Exchange Survey Table 7. Racial and Ethnic Composition of Observed Drug Deliverers, 44 Capitol Hill and Downtown Seattle, 2007 Table 8. Summary of Data Pertaining to Racial and Ethnic Composition of 46 Seattle Users and Deliverers of All Serious Drugs Table 9. The Race and Ethnicity of Seattle Drug Delivery Arrestees, 49 2005–2006 Table 10. Racial Disparity in Drug Arrests in Mid-Sized U.S. Cities, 2006 56 Table 11. Comparison of Racial/Ethnic Composition of Drug 61 Deliverers and Drug Delivery Arrestees Table 12. Racial and Ethnic Composition of Downtown Drug Deliverers, 64 Seattle-King County Needle Exchange Survey Table 13. Racial and Ethnic Composition of Downtown Drug Deliverers 65 by Drug, Seattle-King County Needle Exchange Survey
Page 1 and 2: RACE AND DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT IN SE
Page 3: This report was commissioned as par
Page 7 and 8: Figure 9. Purposeful Seattle Drug D
Page 10 and 11: SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS FINDING 1 T
Page 12 and 13: FINDING 4 The focus on crack cocain
Page 14 and 15: INTRODUCTION Less than 5 percent of
Page 16 and 17: RACIAL DISPARITIES IN SEATTLE DRUG
Page 18 and 19: Table 1. Black and White Drug Arres
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Page 22 and 23: RESEARCH DESIGN AND ORGANIZATION OF
Page 24: serious drugs in Seattle are white.
Page 27 and 28: users: “Persons at almost all lev
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Page 31 and 32: percent of white Seattle residents,
Page 33 and 34: acial/ethnic groups. These data ind
Page 35 and 36: When approaching clients, surveyors
Page 37 and 38: youth. However, these surveys likel
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Page 45 and 46: system at the time of their death w
Page 47 and 48: did not transfer drugs to the buyer
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Table 8. Summary of Data Pertaining
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time. 87 As noted previously, this
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Drug delivery arrests continue to b
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In sum, many of the arrest patterns
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Table 10. Racial Disparity in Drug
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PART III: EXPLAINING RACIAL DISPARI
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that a higher percentage of whites
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After clients had completed their s
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Table 13. Racial and Ethnic Composi
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whites engaging in the same behavio
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Analysis of the patterns found in t
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Table 16. Statistical Significance
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In sum, the evidence shows that rac
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those delivering drugs downtown wer
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for delivering a serious drug in Se
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to danger, instantaneous addiction
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9.6 percent primarily abused other
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percent of those delivering drugs d
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officers made a drug arrest, issued
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Figure 18. Geographic Distribution
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Figure 20. Geographic Distribution
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As these maps illustrate, civilian
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and infant health by crack cocaine
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Although the crack trade has been a
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Weapons were more likely to be seiz
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supports an alternative explanation
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Buckman, Charles, and John Lamberth
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Hagedorn, John M. 1994. “Homeboys
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Murphy, Sheigla and Dan Waldorf. 19
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Ritter, Alison. 2005. A Review of A
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United Nations International Drug C
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APPENDIX B: UNRELIABLE 9-1-1 CALL E
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Complaint: Arrival: Officer Update:
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Katherine Beckett
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THE DEFENDER ASSOCIATION
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