The War on Marijuana Has a Latino Data Problem

We know that the War on Marijuana unnecessarily drags hundreds of thousands of people into the criminal justice system every year for having marijuana. And, because of a new ACLU report, we know that it is blacks who are disproportionately arrested -- despite the fact that blacks and whites use marijuana at comparable rates. But something -- or someone -- is missing here: Latinos. There are 52 million Latinos in the United States, yet we cannot track whether they, too, are targeted for marijuana possession arrests at disproportionate rates. Why? Because the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the federal...