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Unlawful Pot Busts Boom in The Bronx: Report
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/04/unlawful_pot_bu.php
Looks like it might be a really bad week for civil liberties.
The Bronx Defenders just released a study claiming that 41 percent of pot busts in the borough violated the rights of arrestees during the 5-month study period.
Turns out that this practice persisted despite warnings from New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly (via Daily News)
Check it out: The Bronx Defenders chatted with 518 people arrested on pot possession charges from May to October 2011. What they found? "The police lacked sufficient legal basis to justify the initial detention of the client in 34 percent of all of the cases reviewed."