White crack offenders were diverted from federal courts to shorter state sentences

Evidence

A Los Angeles Times investigative report revealed that between 1988 and 1994, “not a single white…has been convicted of a crack cocaine offense in federal courts serving Los Angeles and six Southland counties since Congress enacted stiff mandatory sentences for crack dealers in 1986.” Instead, white crack offenders were prosecuted by California’s state court, where they often received significantly shorter sentences—up to eight years less for the same crime. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 414