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Runnin' Scared - The NYPD 'Weeds' Out Blacks and Latinos
News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat May 3, 2008 11:55 PM EDT
Article Source: The Village Voiceadvertisement
New study outlines racial disparity in NYC's staggering number of pot busts
by Sean Gardiner
April 29th, 2008 12:00 AMIn April 2001, when asked in an interview if he'd ever smoked pot, mayoral candidate Michael Bloomberg replied: "You bet I did. And I enjoyed it." The billionaire mayor's reign, however, has been anything but enjoyable for dope smokers, especially those who aren't white. More people have already been locked up for misdemeanor marijuana possession during Bloomberg's first six years in office—some 214,300—than during any other administration in city history, including the full eight years of former prosecutor Rudy Giuliani.
Blacks and Latinos are disproportionately busted on minor pot charges. That's hardly shocking in a city where the Sean Bell case—yet another instance of an unarmed black person's death at the hands of cops—currently dominates the news.
More people get arrested for misdemeanor pot possession in Bloomberg's New York—about 35,700 a year, or 97 per day—than in any other city in the U.S. and "almost certainly" the world, says the author of a new study.
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It's an ugly picture and in the same issue as Tom Robbins' piece on Sean Bell. I'll seed it next, but it is a hard to swallow profile of how the NYPD, sworn to protect and serve, are doing their job. New Yorkers come in every kind but none of us like the idea of our freedoms being abused by servants getting too carried away with their authority.
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