NYPD Still Arresting Large Numbers Of Minorities For Low-Level Marijuana Offenses

[Cali_Democrat]

America...where justice is only for white people....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/20/new-york-marijuana-arrest_n_6016700.html?utm_hp_ref=black-voices&ir=Black%20Voices

As a candidate for New York City mayor last year, Bill de Blasio promised to end marijuana arrests, noting that they have “disastrous consequences for individuals and their families,” such as making it harder for people to secure student financial aid and find “stable housing and good jobs.”

As mayor, de Blasio is not living up to that promise, according to a report released Monday by the Drug Policy Alliance and the Marijuana Arrest Research Project, groups advocating an end to the arrests. Between March and August of this year, the police made hundreds more low-level marijuana arrests than they did during the same six-month period under his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, according to the report.

"President Obama, Governor Cuomo, former Mayor Ed Koch and candidate Bill de Blasio all strongly criticized the NYPD's racist marijuana possession arrests,” Harry Levine, a Queens College professor and an author of the report, said in a statement. “Yet the most progressive mayor in the modern history of New York is unable to stop them? Really?"

[malthaussen]

1. Mayors are elected.

Cops are permanent. Kind of like the permanent undersecretaries in the Federal government (and in other parliamentary governments). Who really makes the rules? The elected figurehead, or his nominal subordinate?

-- Mal

[Rex]

2. The war must continue.

Billions of dollars depend on it.

[Downwinder]

3. Who controls the police/surveillance state?

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Not the Mayor, Governor, or President.