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NYPD Marijuana Arrests Scandal Blows Up Again

by borden [6], March 20, 2013, 12:47am
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NYPD spent a million hours on marijuana possession arrests over the past decade, a new report finds.

March 2012 protest of NYC stop and frisk violations
A front page story [10] on The Huffington Post reported on another New York marijuana arrests report [11] by our friend Prof. Harry Levine, this one with Loren Siegel (formerly of ACLU) and DPA's Gabriel Sayegh. It's the best one yet, or at a minimum the title is the best one yet:

"NYPD Spent 1 Million Hours Making 440,000 Marijuana Possession Arrests Over Last Decade"
 

Many of those hours involved overtime pay too. It really sums up the stupidity of it all, in a pretty special way. (The injustices [12] were addressed last week.)

Also, there's a lawsuit [13], and a judge told NYPD to stop "stop and frisk" arrests in the meanwhile. (But have they?) And Gov. Cuomo continues to push for full decrim to plug the "open view" loophole officers have abused to make all these arrests.

Phil is working on a story for the Chronicle, but there are some links in the meanwhile.

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