Law enforcement has the power to raise awareness and take action against inequality, but “Civil rights groups and minority leaders complained that the laws prescribed longer sentences for the sale or possession of crack cocaine (most often used by minorities) than for possession or sale of powdered cocaine, which is much more expensive and more often used by whites.” (Rodriguez 7). wThichs cgomes to show that law enforcement has the knowledge that powdered cocaine is much more expensive, and is obviously used more by people withof wealth and of the white race, but those people are less likely to be searched because of their privilege.