The International Business Times tells us that "More than 50,000 people were arrested last year in New York City for possessing small amounts of marijuana , according to the New York Division of Criminal Justice Services." That is over 15 per cent of the arrests in The Apple alone last year.
That number also "...more marijuana arrests in one year than the number of similar arrests made by the New York Police Department (NYPD) over the entire period from 1978 to 1996, according to an analysis for the alliance done by Harry Levine, a sociology professor at Queens College."
As they will in Stephen Harper's Canada "These arrests cost tens of millions of dollars every year, and introduce tens of thousands of young people into our broken criminal justice system. Almost 70 percent of those arrested are younger than 30 years old...while a whopping 86 percent of those arrested are Black or Latino, even though research consistently shows that young whites use marijuana at higher rates."
A preview of coming attractions.
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