A Jacksonville, Florida, narcotics detective shot and killed an armed man during a drug raid aimed at arresting a small-scale crack dealer Thursday. Juan Montrice Lawrence, 40, becomes the 22rd person to die in US…
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New York City: Still The Marijuana Arrest Capital Of The World
February 2, 2012 | 6 views | No Comments
Low level marijuana arrests in New York City rose for the seventh straight year in 2011 to 50,680. The arrest total is the highest total on record since former pot smoker Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office and it is the second highest total of pot arrests ever recorded in the history of the city (just 587 arrests behind the record holding year 2000, when Mayor Rudolph Giuliani oversaw some 51,267 people arrested for marijuana violations). Shockingly, the near-record high arrest total comes just months after New York City Police Commissioner [...]
Do The Math: The ‘War’ On Pot Is Largely A War Upon Young People
December 19, 2011 | 4 views | No Comments
A new study out today estimates that one-third of US young people will be arrested or taken into custody for illegal or delinquent offenses (excluding arrests for minor traffic violations) by the age of 23.
CBS News/Web MD reports on the findings here:
Study: Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. youths will be arrested by age 23
Parents and [...]
Posted in NewsOf 50,000 Marijuana Arrests In New York City A Year, Most Are Black And Hispanic Men
November 6, 2011 | 7 views | No Comments
NEW YORK — As the nation's biggest city deals with threats of terrorism and a variety of violent crimes, carrying a little bit of marijuana is still a big deal.
There are more arrests for low-level pot possession in New York City &…
Posted in NewsTwenty Three Million Marijuana Arrests Since 1937: We Reap What We Sow
September 30, 2011 | 0 views | No Comments
We reap what we sow….
On the verge of a three night PBS documentary series on the abject failure of Alcohol Prohibition (one of the taglines for the documentary is ‘a look back to when a law made America lawless’) an email from a victim of the modern prohibition that has totally failed affirms the obvious: [...]
Posted in NewsMarijuana Arrests Driving America’s So-Called ‘Drug War,’ Latest FBI Data Shows
September 19, 2011 | 5 views | No Comments
Police made 853,838 arrests in 2010 for marijuana-related offenses, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual Uniform Crime Report, released today. The arrest total is among the highest ever reported by the agency and is nearly identical to the total number of cannabis-related arrests reported in 2009.
According to the report, marijuana arrests now comprise [...]
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