Black People Make Up 75% Of All Cannabis Arrests At LAX, Data Shows

Roughly a third of the people who were arrested by LAPD in the city of Los Angeles for cannabis-related offenses since 2020 were arrested in Westchester. Nearly all of those arrests happened at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

There’s one neighborhood in Los Angeles where you’re more likely to be arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for possession of cannabis than anywhere else in the city:

Westchester.

Roughly a third of the people who were arrested by LAPD in the city of Los Angeles for cannabis-related offenses since 2020 were arrested in Westchester—the majority-white, upper-middle-class, suburban community on the city’s westside—according to LAPD data.

Nearly all of those arrests happened at one location:

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).



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