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Table 14. Racial and Ethnic Composition of Downtown Drug Deliverers 66 Table 15. Statistical Significance of the Difference between the Racial/ 68 Ethnic Composition of Observed Downtown Drug Deliverers and Downtown Drug Delivery Arrestees Table 16. Statistical Significance of the Difference between the 71 Racial/Ethnic Composition of Observed Drug Deliverers and Drug Delivery Arrestees Table 17. The Racial/Ethnic Composition of Drug Deliverers and Drug 72 Delivery Arrestees, University District Table 18. Comparison of Civilian Complaints and Drug Delivery Arrests 91 Table 19. Weapons Found in Seattle Drug Arrests, 2005–2006 96 FIGURES: Figure 1. SAMHSA Survey Results for City of Seattle: Drug Activity in 21 Past Year, 2002–2006 Figure 2. Drug Use in Past 30 Days among Seattle Public School 23 Students, 2004 Figure 3. Prevalence of Past Month Drug Use among Seattle Public 24 School Students Figure 4. Racial and Ethnic Composition of Seattle-King County 30 Needle Exchangers by Survey Status Figure 5. Drug Treatment Admissions among Seattle Residents by 32 Primary Drug of Abuse, 2005–2007 Figure 6. Drug-Related Deaths among Seattle Residents by Race, 36 2005–2007 Figure 7. Purposeful Seattle Drug Delivery Arrests by Drug, 1999–2001 48 and 2005–2006 Figure 8. Purposeful Seattle Drug Delivery Arrests by Operation Type, 50 2005–2006
Figure 9. Purposeful Seattle Drug Delivery Arrests by Operation Type 51 and Race, 2005–2006 Figure 10. Purposeful Seattle Drug Delivery Arrests by Location Type 51 and Race, 2005–2006 Figure 11. Purposeful Seattle Drug Delivery Arrests by Precinct, 52 2005–2006 Figure 12. Geographic Distribution of Seattle Drug Delivery 53 Arrests by Census Tract and Point Location, 2005–2006 Figure 13. Capitol Hill Deliverers and Delivery Arrestees, 2005–2006 69 Figure 14. Percentage of Purposeful Seattle Drug Delivery Arrests 77 Involving Blacks, Crack Cocaine and No Crack Cocaine, 2005–2006 Figure 15. Percentage of Purposeful Delivery Arrests Involving Black 78 Suspects by Arrest Type, 2005–2006 Figure 16. Seattle Treatment Admissions by Drug of Abuse, 2005–2007 81 Figure 17. Geographic Distribution of Narcotics Activity Reports, 86 2005–2006 Figure 18. Geographic Distribution of Civilian Narcotics 9-1-1 Calls 87 Figure 19. Geographic Distribution of Civilian Complaints about Drug 88 Activity and Drug Delivery Arrests Figure 20. Geographic Distribution of Civilian Narcotics Complaints 89 Figure 21. Geographic Distribution of Seattle Drug Delivery Arrests 90
Page 1 and 2: RACE AND DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT IN SE
Page 3 and 4: This report was commissioned as par
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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
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ut only 89 for methamphetamine, ecs
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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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