The book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” (“The New Jim Crow”) touches on many significant points regarding the system of criminal justice and the systemically racial elements that have been perpetuated through various laws. As argued in the book, the “War on Drugs” has been used to perpetuate racial discrimination against African Americans since the 1980s and the Reagan administration. My personal reflection on the book comes from a legal perspective. In the world of legal education, there is little or no discussion about the impact of the law. There is intense discussion about what the law is and where it might go, but in terms of the impact of certain laws like that within the “War on Drugs,” I believe the mass incarceration of African Americans in relation to drug laws has been mentioned twice. at most and only fleetingly. In terms of what might have changed there was no mention of the sociological elements at play or whether the disparate impact was due to the law itself. Even in the law school context the discussion centered on the almost implicit assumption that minorities were simply more prone to criminal violence. In “The New Jim Crow” various criticisms of current systems were addressed. The abuses and financial inducements undertaken by police departments corrupt the system. Racial bias increases the likelihood that African Americans and other minorities such as Latinos will be stopped and their property seized. Although legally “white” individuals are more likely to sell and consume illegal drugs, African Americans and other minorities manage to fill prisons and be targets of police. Police departments violate 4th Amendment protections to accomplish this purpose and their… medium of paper… must be read by all potential prosecutors, legislators, or judges. The negative and disparate impact of the “War on Drugs” has its roots in law and jurisprudence. Yet in the legal field there is little or no discussion of the different impact and it is instead passed off as a problem without a logical solution. After reading the book, the racial discrimination problem of mass incarceration makes much more sense and there seems to be a logical solution. To stop mass incarceration and the disproportionate impact on African American communities, laws perpetuated as part of the “War on Drugs” must be, at a minimum, reduced to lessen law enforcement interest in economic benefits and also to allow civil rights charges to be admitted into the criminal justice system. Alexander made a very convincing argument in his book.