Bill de Blasio’s NYPD Keeps Sticking Mostly Blacks and Latinos in Jail for Low-Level Pot Offenses

His top cop Bill Bratton seems unaware that pot has been decriminalized . . . since 1977. The NYPD continues to toss blacks and Latinos in jail for low-level pot offenses, despite Mayor Bill de Blasio‘s campaign pledge to end arrests for possession of small amounts of marijuana.   Data assembled by the Marijuana Arrest Research Project indicates that the NYPD under de Blasio has managed to pull slightly ahead of the Bloomberg administration‘s 2013 arrest rates for pot possession. In the first 4 months of 2014, police have arrested an average of 80 people per day for small amounts of pot; the average last year was 78.   The department is also continuing the proud NYPD tradition of primarily targeting young minorities in poor neighborhoods. […] Read More