Racial discrimination is unlawful and morally repugnant.
No business, school, facility of interstate commerce or other organization is permitted to operate in a consistently racially discriminatory fashion. The largest category of cases initiated by the criminal justice system is that of drug cases. An analysis of drug case processing reveals a pattern of system-wide racial disparity adversely affecting black and Hispanic defendants. This paper points out that this problem profoundly overshadows the well-known problem of Federal crack prosecutions. Over the past decade it has become well-known that Federal crack cocaine defendants are disproportionately black.