New York City's Marijuana Arrest Crusade
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Stumble This"In Spring, 2008, the New York Civil Liberties Union released the report, The Marijuana Arrest Crusade in New York City: Racial Bias in Police Policy 1997-2007.
The report, written by Prof. Harry G. Levine, a sociologist at Queens College, and Deborah Peterson Small, an attorney and advocate for drug policy reform, is the first ever in-depth study of misdemeanor marijuana arrests in New York City during the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations.
The results were stunning: Since 1997, the NYPD arrested and jailed nearly 400,000 New Yorkers for possessing small amounts of marijuana, tenfold increase over the previous decade.
Fifty-two percent of those arrested were black, and 31 percent were Latino.
The arrests were also heavily skewed by gender - 91 percent of people arrested were male."
The report, written by Prof. Harry G. Levine, a sociologist at Queens College, and Deborah Peterson Small, an attorney and advocate for drug policy reform, is the first ever in-depth study of misdemeanor marijuana arrests in New York City during the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations.
The results were stunning: Since 1997, the NYPD arrested and jailed nearly 400,000 New Yorkers for possessing small amounts of marijuana, tenfold increase over the previous decade.
Fifty-two percent of those arrested were black, and 31 percent were Latino.
The arrests were also heavily skewed by gender - 91 percent of people arrested were male."
| 4 months ago | CH
