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	AN ONLINE LIBRARY ABOUT MARIJUANA POSSESSION ARRESTS, RACE AND POLICE POLICY IN NEW YORK CITY AND BEYOND

AN ONLINE LIBRARY ABOUT MARIJUANA POSSESSION ARRESTS,
RACE AND POLICE POLICY IN NEW YORK CITY AND BEYOND

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• HOME PAGE SPRING 2020 Bloomberg's Back ! Bloomberg's billion dollar campaign for president is providing a "teachable moment" about the frankly evil effects of his Stop & Frisk and Marijuana Arrest Crusades. We are happily seizing this opportunity to reorganize and revise marijuana-arrests.com to better show and document the god-awful policing that indeed happened during the rein of Mayor Bloomberg, 2002-2013. More to come..... • BLOOMBERG'S RACIST POLICING: 470,000 MARIJUANA POSSESSION ARRESTS AND FIVE MILLION STOP AND FRISKS. JOURNALISM, RESEARCH, DATA, LINKS, PICS, AND MORE... - NEW, IN MARCH 2020 - JUST BEGUN AND GROWING.... • • REPORTS, PUBLICATIONS, TESTIMONY By the Marijuana Arrest Research Project- • THE SCANDAL OF RACIST MARIJUANA ARRESTS (From The Nation, and The War on Marijuana in Black and White from the ACLU) • STOP & FRISK NYC (news excerpts) • THE AWFUL SUMMONS COURT SYSTEM IN NYC NY City's Marijuana Possession Arrests • GRAPHS & TABLES • COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES • JOURNALISM & COMMENTARY __________________________________ • ABOUT MARIJUANA-ARRESTS.COM __________________________________ Archives: No longer updated but still useful for researchers. • STOP & FRISK REPORTS AND DATA • STOP & FRISK NYC (news excerpts) • QUOTAS, QUOTAS, QUOTAS • BRATTON'S BROKEN WINDOWS • POLICE PERJURY AND FALSIFYING: Excerpts from the Mollen Report • SCANDALS OF THE NYPD • U.S. MARIJUANA ARRESTS 1965-2013 • WASHINGTON DC, CHICAGO, ETC ____________________________________	______________________________________________________________________________ BLOOMBERG'S ENORMOUS POLICING SCANDALS 470,000 ARRESTS FOR MARIJUANA POSSESSION FIVE MILLION STOP, FRISK AND SEARCHES ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WATCH THIS SPACE.....MORE COMING SOON...... INCLUDING 5 MILLION STOP AND FRISKS...... TEMPORARY, TO BE UPDATED SOON..... ________________________________________________________ SELECTED REPORTS, PUBLICATIONS, TESTIMONY BY THE MARIJUANA ARREST RESEARCH PROJECT (arranged for Bloomberg's teachable moment) ________________________________________________________________ • Marijuana Madness: New York City's Racist Marijuana Arrests, 2015 Long chapter for a book about the NYPD edited by former police Captain John Eterno. It tells the whole sordid story of the NYPD's many hundreds of thousands of marijuana possession arrests in its 20-year marijuana arrest crusade. Written in late 2013 at the end of Bloomberg's last year. • $75 Million A Year: The Cost of New York City's Marijuana Possession Arrests by Harry G. Levine & Loren Siegel – March 2011 Report released with the Drug Policy Alliance about the cost of arresting 50,000 people a year. • The Epidemic of Pot Arrests in New York City, by Harry G. Levine, Alternet.org – Aug 2009 Oped summary of arrests in NYC and other cities about half way through Bloomberg's 12 year marijuana arrest crusade. • Unjust & Unconstitutional: 60,000 Jim Crow Marijuana Arrests in Mayor de Blasio's New York Charts and data about 25 years of Jim Crow Raciall-Biased or Racist Marijuana Arrests in NY City inlcuding during Bloomberg's 12 years. • NYC’s 1.5 Million Arrest Warrants for NonCriminal Offences and New York City's Jim Crow Marijuana Arrests: Truth, Race, Hidden Data, and Routine Policing in New York City by Harry Levine, March 2017. Testimony for The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hearing on “Police Practices and Accountabiility in New York City," CUNY School of Law, Long Island City, March 21, 2017 • Police Stops, Illegal Searches, And Marijuana Possession Arrests Strong testimony by Harry Levine to Hearings of the New York City Council, detailing the connection between stop and frisk, illegal searches, and marijuana possession arrests. Charts. October 2012. • Race, Class and Marijuana Arrests in Mayor de Blastio's Two New Yorks THE NYPD'S MARIJUANA ARREST CRUSADE CONTINUES IN 2014 Data on race, income and arrests in 20 neighbohoods with lowest rates and 20 with the highest rates of marijuana possession arrests. Stresses continuities between policying under Bloomberg and in de Blasio's first year. Harry Levine & Loren Siegel, 14 pages, October 2014 • One Million Police Hours: Making 440,000 Marijuana Arrests in New York City, 2002-2012 by Harry G. Levine, Loren Siegel, and Gabriel Sayegh, March 2013 Report about police time and resources devoted to making marijuana possession arrests since Bloomberg became Mayor, released by Drug Policy Alliance and The Marijuana Arrest Project. Includes numerous excerpts of responses to NYC's possession arrests from 2007 to 2013. • The Scandal of Racist Mariuana Arrests Good, tight, clear overview of the reasons for the racially-skewed marijuana arrests in NYC and throughout the US. by Harry Levine, in The Nation magazine, November 2013 • National Disgrace *Interview with Harry Levine by Natasha Lennard, The New Inquiry, April 2013* • Bloomberg's Marijuana Arrest Crusade is ... Softened? by Harry G. Levine, Alternet.org – February 2013 Short oped about the "reform" announced in the Mayor's State of the City Address • Marijuana Possession Arrests, Illegal Searches, and The Summons Court System: Testimony by Harry Levine to the New York City Council – June 2012 Regarding proposed legislation with photos of illegal police searches and discussion of the summons court system which will handle the decriminalized marijuana possession charges. • Regarding Marijuana Arrests: Testimony to the New York State Senate – June 2011 Includes new data showing NYPD arrests by precinct and arrests in 13 counties and cites in NY State • The Epidemic of Pot Arrests in New York City, by Harry G. Levine, Alternet.org – Aug 2009 Oped summary of arrests in NYC and other cities. • New York City's Marijuana Arrest Crusade ... Continues - 2009 Brief update of the above report with new graphs and data. Sept 2009, updated Jan 2010 • Marijuana Arrest Crusade: Racial Bias and Police Policy in New York City, 1997-2007, by Harry G. Levine & Deborah P. Small. April 2008 New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) report, 100 pages, graphs and detailed description of the arrests. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Source: Click here for tables with full source information. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• HOME PAGE SPRING 2020

Bloomberg's Back !

Bloomberg's billion dollar campaign for president is providing a "teachable moment" about the frankly evil effects of his Stop & Frisk and Marijuana Arrest Crusades.

We are happily seizing this opportunity to reorganize and revise marijuana-arrests.com to better show and document the god-awful policing that indeed happened during the rein of Mayor Bloomberg, 2002-2013.

More to come.....

• BLOOMBERG'S RACIST POLICING:

470,000 MARIJUANA POSSESSION ARRESTS AND FIVE MILLION STOP AND FRISKS. JOURNALISM, RESEARCH, DATA, LINKS, PICS, AND MORE...

- NEW, IN MARCH 2020 - JUST BEGUN AND GROWING.... •

• REPORTS, PUBLICATIONS, TESTIMONY By the Marijuana Arrest Research Project-

• THE SCANDAL OF RACIST MARIJUANA ARRESTS
(From The Nation, and The War on Marijuana in Black and White from the ACLU)

• STOP & FRISK NYC (news excerpts)

• THE AWFUL SUMMONS COURT SYSTEM IN NYC

NY City's Marijuana Possession Arrests

• GRAPHS & TABLES

• COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES

• JOURNALISM & COMMENTARY

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• ABOUT MARIJUANA-ARRESTS.COM

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Archives: No longer updated but still useful

for researchers.

• STOP & FRISK REPORTS AND DATA

• STOP & FRISK NYC (news excerpts)
• QUOTAS, QUOTAS, QUOTAS

• BRATTON'S BROKEN WINDOWS

• POLICE PERJURY AND FALSIFYING: Excerpts
from the Mollen Report

• SCANDALS OF THE NYPD

• U.S. MARIJUANA ARRESTS 1965-2013

• WASHINGTON DC, CHICAGO, ETC

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______________________________________________________________________________

BLOOMBERG'S ENORMOUS POLICING SCANDALS

470,000 ARRESTS FOR MARIJUANA POSSESSION

FIVE MILLION STOP, FRISK AND SEARCHES

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WATCH THIS SPACE.....MORE COMING SOON...... INCLUDING 5 MILLION STOP AND FRISKS......

TEMPORARY, TO BE UPDATED SOON.....

________________________________________________________

SELECTED REPORTS, PUBLICATIONS, TESTIMONY

BY THE MARIJUANA ARREST RESEARCH PROJECT

(arranged for Bloomberg's teachable moment)

________________________________________________________________

• Marijuana Madness: New York City's Racist Marijuana Arrests, 2015

Long chapter for a book about the NYPD edited by former police Captain John Eterno. It tells the whole sordid story of the NYPD's many hundreds of thousands of marijuana possession arrests in its 20-year marijuana arrest crusade. Written in late 2013 at the end of Bloomberg's last year.

• $75 Million A Year: The Cost of New York City's Marijuana Possession Arrests
by Harry G. Levine & Loren Siegel – March 2011
Report released with the Drug Policy Alliance about the cost of arresting 50,000 people a year.

• The Epidemic of Pot Arrests in New York City, by Harry G. Levine, Alternet.org – Aug 2009
Oped summary of arrests in NYC and other cities about half way through Bloomberg's 12 year marijuana arrest crusade.

• Unjust & Unconstitutional: 60,000 Jim Crow Marijuana Arrests in Mayor de Blasio's New York

Charts and data about 25 years of Jim Crow Raciall-Biased or Racist Marijuana Arrests in NY City inlcuding during Bloomberg's 12 years.

• NYC’s 1.5 Million Arrest Warrants for NonCriminal Offences and New York City's Jim Crow
Marijuana Arrests: Truth, Race, Hidden Data, and Routine Policing in New York City by Harry Levine, March 2017. Testimony for The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hearing on “Police Practices and Accountabiility in New York City," CUNY School of Law, Long Island City, March 21, 2017

• Police Stops, Illegal Searches, And Marijuana Possession Arrests
Strong testimony by Harry Levine to Hearings of the New York City Council, detailing the connection between stop and frisk, illegal searches, and marijuana possession arrests. Charts. October 2012.

• Race, Class and Marijuana Arrests in Mayor de Blastio's Two New Yorks

THE NYPD'S MARIJUANA ARREST CRUSADE CONTINUES IN 2014

Data on race, income and arrests in 20 neighbohoods with lowest rates and 20 with the highest rates of marijuana possession arrests. Stresses continuities between policying under Bloomberg and in de Blasio's first year. Harry Levine & Loren Siegel, 14 pages, October 2014

• One Million Police Hours: Making 440,000 Marijuana Arrests in New York City, 2002-2012
by Harry G. Levine, Loren Siegel, and Gabriel Sayegh, March 2013
Report about police time and resources devoted to making marijuana possession arrests since Bloomberg became Mayor, released by Drug Policy Alliance and The Marijuana Arrest Project. Includes numerous excerpts of responses to NYC's possession arrests from 2007 to 2013.

• The Scandal of Racist Mariuana Arrests
Good, tight, clear overview of the reasons for the racially-skewed marijuana arrests in NYC and throughout the US. by Harry Levine, in The Nation magazine, November 2013

• National Disgrace
Interview with Harry Levine by Natasha Lennard, The New Inquiry, April 2013

• Bloomberg's Marijuana Arrest Crusade is ... Softened?
by Harry G. Levine, Alternet.org – February 2013
Short oped about the "reform" announced in the Mayor's State of the City Address

• Marijuana Possession Arrests, Illegal Searches, and The Summons Court System:

Testimony by Harry Levine to the New York City Council – June 2012

Regarding proposed legislation with photos of illegal police searches and discussion of the summons court system which will handle the decriminalized marijuana possession charges.

• Regarding Marijuana Arrests: Testimony to the New York State Senate – June 2011

Includes new data showing NYPD arrests by precinct and arrests in 13 counties and cites in NY State

• The Epidemic of Pot Arrests in New York City, by Harry G. Levine, Alternet.org – Aug 2009
Oped summary of arrests in NYC and other cities.

• New York City's Marijuana Arrest Crusade ... Continues - 2009

Brief update of the above report with new graphs and data. Sept 2009, updated Jan 2010

• Marijuana Arrest Crusade: Racial Bias and Police Policy in New York City, 1997-2007,

by Harry G. Levine & Deborah P. Small. April 2008
New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) report, 100 pages, graphs and detailed description of the arrests.

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Source: Click here for tables with full source information.

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