disparate results, subject to stricter policing, stop and frisk, and harsher penalties for the same offenses committed by other americans. to a degree the war on drugs is certainly also a driver of this problem. our prison population hasek mroeded since president nixon first declared war on drugs in the '70s but this problem, this mass incarceration is not just from drugs. as some states legalize marijuana and some republicans in congress talk about rolling back those mandatory minimums, there are reformers noting that even changing those laws wouldn't remove the u.s. from its position as the highest incarceration rate nation of any democracy in the world. a recent article in "the new york times" says even without its many inmates convicted of drug charges, the u.s. still leads the world in imprisoning people. a true challenge means track willing problems that run deeper than the drug war itself. >> we need to recognize that