On: Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first

[treis]

These are federal offenses only. Most crime is prosecuted at the state level and the majority of that isn't drug offenses.

And the people in federal prison for drugs don't get there by smoking pot on their front porch. They're mostly there for trafficking.

[godelski → treis]

That's a good point. I did address the other levels here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655174 but it was harder to find more of a breakdown in the data.

[iguy → godelski]

I don't have a link handy but it's around 15% of the total prison population who are in for drug offences.

[daenz → iguy]

I do have a link handy: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html

[iguy → daenz]

Thanks! So between 10 & 20% are in for drugs -- the lower figure if I try to exclude trafficking (although roughly, as they don't always break it down). And this means "in for nothing harder than drugs" since they are counting by the worst conviction.