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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful for the assistance and insights of many. Reliable, smart and responsive research assistants are difficult to come by, and I am thankful to have benefited from the support of several: Tyler Corwin, Dave Sharrow, Matt Wilson and Erin Powers. Caleb Banta-Green, Michael Arthur, James Colliver, Kris Nyrop and Fritz Wrede provided key data sources and were generous with their time. Public Health—Seattle & King County collaborated in the design of the 2007– 2008 Seattle-King County Needle Exchange Survey and generously allowed the needle exchange survey to take place at all seven syringe exchange facilities. Michael Hanrahan also provided useful information regarding injection drug users in King County. As always, I am thankful for Steve Herbert’s support and ideas. This study was commissioned by The Defender Association and the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project, without whom little would be known about those arrested for drug law violations in Seattle.
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Page 5 and 6: LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES PAGE TAB
Page 7: Figure 9. Purposeful Seattle Drug D
Page 11 and 12: FINDING 3 The focus on crack cocain
Page 13 and 14: CONCLUSIONS • The degree to which
Page 15 and 16: voting rights until all of their le
Page 17 and 18: A recent study of black over-repres
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Page 21 and 22: • The vast majority (over 74 perc
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Page 26 and 27: PART I: THE SEATTLE DRUG MARKET Thi
Page 28 and 29: used and distributed in the Seattle
Page 30 and 31: were most widely reported (by 1.7 p
Page 32 and 33: most categories were just over 60 p
Page 34 and 35: who used a serious illicit drug in
Page 36 and 37: were permanently housed; the majori
Page 38 and 39: surveyors did record the perceived
Page 40 and 41: Table 3. The Racial and Ethnic Comp
Page 42 and 43: TARGET data also provide informatio
Page 44 and 45: majority of Seattle’s cocaine use
Page 46 and 47: were chosen because they are well k
Page 48 and 49: general surveys likely reflect the
Page 50 and 51: SAMHSA’S HOUSEHOLD SURVEY ON DRUG
Page 52 and 53: In short, the results of the survey
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As was the case from 1999 to 2001,
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Figure Figure 12. Geographic 12. Ge
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If we focus only on delivery/sales/
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In sum, Seattle drug arrests are ch
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on black suspects leads to the pred
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exchange needles, recreational drug
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Table 12. Racial and Ethnic Composi
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downtown (e.g. in census tract 81)
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considered statistically significan
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Capitol Hill—e.g. census tracts 7
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District were black; only 19 percen
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an empirical matter, however, it do
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arrestees is a consequence of law e
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As shown in Figure 15, the impact o
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HYPOTHESIS 4A: THE FOCUS ON CRACK C
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In short, even if we limit our atte
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HYPOTHESIS 4B: THE FOCUS ON CRACK C
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Figure 17. Geographic Distribution
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Comparison of the 9-1-1 calls and a
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Figure 21. Geographic Distribution
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Given the lack of information about
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and in King County, these data indi
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Specifically, 1.4 percent of crack
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CONCLUSION The policies associated
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REFERENCES Adler, Patricia. 1985. W
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Deibert, Ryan J., Gary Goldbaum, Th
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Lu, Natalie T., Bruce G. Taylor, an
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Patillo, Mary, David Weiman, and Br
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health S
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APPENDIX A: PUBLIC DRUG TREATMENT A
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Complaint: Arrival: Officer Update:
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Officer Update: Complaint: Arrival:
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