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Rules of the Game
Very few laws or legal rules hold back the police with the War on Drugs. This is a key feature in the War on Drugs, to make it easy for police to round up millions of Americans. According to Michelle Alexander the author of The New Jim Crow “the Supreme Court has seized every opportunity to facilitate the drug war, by eviscerating Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures.” Some people say that the "Drug exception" has been written into the constitution. Because of this police now have been able to search people all on a whim or a small tip that a person may have drugs, and be able to search them. These new rules have made that anyone could be a target of drug law enforcement.

Waging Wars
The War on Drugs used to be a political slogan, now it has become a actual war. Police departments became flooded with cash and military equipment. These paramilitary units or know as SWAT, were quickly formed in all major cities to fight the war on drugs. Police were encouraged to use the gear to go after drug dealers, but this goes wrong because of many failed SWAT raids on innocent people's houses. This transformation of police from regular community policing to full military police started in 1981. The Reagan administration passed the Military Cooperation with Law enforcement Act, which encouraged the military to give local, state, and federal police access to military bases. This police access to equipment, tactics, research, intelligence, and weapons to fight the war on drugs.

Racial Profiling
Racial Profiling has been used against blacks and minorities for years. And it is no different in today’s society. One way that racial profiling is used against people of color is in job applications and interviews. According to the Chicago GSB that having a white sounding name will get you a job interview 50% more than having an African-American sounding name. Names like Emily and Baker were used and, for African Americans names like Lakisha Washington and Jamal James were used in the job applications. They found that white names only need to send 10 resumes to get a callback compared to African-Americans they have to send 15 resumes to get a callback for an interview. One other way to lower the chances of getting a callback for an interview is to have a criminal record. According to a study done by epi, 34% of whites that have no criminal record are more likely to be called back. Blacks with criminal background were the most least likely to be called back with only 5%. The biggest surprise in the study was that 14% of blacks that were clean, had no criminal background were called back for an interview. Whereas 17% of whites that did have a criminal background were called back for an interview. This shows that race does have a factor in job employment, even with employers that say they are equal opportunity employers.