tl;dr: racial profiling and quotas. It's just an exploitable law (if using a dubiously-stretched interpretation) which is a handy pretext for arbitrarily arrest

tl;dr: racial profiling and quotas. It's just an exploitable law (if using a dubiously-stretched interpretation) which is a handy pretext for arbitrarily arresting people. The title is essentially wrong, in that it's not the law itself that has landed people in jail, it's the police wilfully mis-enforcing it.