Posted on: April 30th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Community ] [ Eye Openers ] [ New York City ]
The NYPD arrested more than 350,000 people for misdemeanor marijuana possession over the past decade — a tenfold increase achieved by systematically targeting young black and Hispanic men and stopping them without cause, a report released Tuesday charges.
The NYPD said the New York Civil Liberties Union, which released the report, is misleading the public “with absurdly inflated numbers and false claims about bias.”For example, between 2003 and 2006, overall marijuana arrests dipped by 25 percent compared with the previous four-year period, “a point missing from the report,” said Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, the NYPD’s top spokesman.”*
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