The author of the text outlines a study completed in Seattle that looked at statistics associated with Seattle's war on drugs and their success in fighting that war. While Seattle is 70% White, two-thirds of those arrested for drug violations are Black. Further, most of the arrests have specifically targeted drug markets that are predominantly Black. What do the researchers conclude about the police department's drug enforcement efforts?
A) They are consciously targeting the Blacks in their community.
B) They are unconsciously perceiving Blacks as the primary cause of the city's drug problems.
C) They are consciously seeing the Whites as the primary cause of the city's drug problems, but they want to clean up the Black problem first, since it is smaller.
D) They are simply arresting those that are more accessible to them.

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The researchers likely conclude that the police department's drug enforcement efforts are influenced by unconscious biases, perceiving Blacks as the primary cause of the city's drug problems, given the disproportionate rate of arrests among Black individuals compared to their population size.

The Author of the Text Outlines a Study Completed in Seattle