THE NUMBERS INSIDE L.A.’S BLACK AND BROWN BUSTS

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For yet another year, Blacks and Latinos sit atop the leaderboard of Angelenos getting busted over weed.L.A. Taco

• Three of four citizens arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department on suspicion of cannabis-related offenses were Black or Latino. Hundreds of these busts are for working in unlicensed dispensaries.
• Also, people who smoke weed on the street get busted. Although not entirely why Black and Brown people are disproportionately busted for public consumption . . .
  

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