Pete Buttigieg, a newly minted front-runner in the Democratic presidential race, had a difficult time at Friday’s debate explaining statistics that showed disproportionately high arrest rates for African-Americans in South Bend, Ind., for marijuana possession when he was mayor of the small midwestern
Pete Buttigieg, a newly minted front-runner in the Democratic presidential race, had a difficult time at Friday’s debate explaining statistics that showed disproportionately high arrest rates for African-Americans for marijuana possession during his tenure as mayor of South Bend, Ind.
“The reality is that, on my watch, under my leadership, drug arrests in South Bend were lower than the national average, and specifically to marijuana, lower than in Indiana,” Buttigieg began. “But there is no question that systemic racism has penetrated to every level of our system, and my city was not immune. I took a lot of heat for discussing systemic racism with my own police department, but we’ve got to confront the fact that there is no escaping how this is part of all of our policies.
He went on to discuss his proposal to “end incarceration as a response to possession and make sure that we legalize marijuana,” but was interrupted by Davis, asking him to respond to the question about arrest rates on his watch.
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