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The War on Drugs contributes to racial profiling.

Date: 1980s

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"The War on Drugs prompts not only individual instances of racial profiling, but also profiling of entire communities. Although the use and sale of drugs takes place in a wide range of locations–from penthouses and boardrooms to fraternity houses and university campuses to suburban basements and bathrooms–police focus their efforts in the War on Drugs almost exclusively on 'open air' drug markets located in the streets of Black, Indigenous & Communities of Color" (Lapidus et al., 2005)