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

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• HOME PAGE 

 

• LEGALIZATION IS NOT ENOUGH

Excerpts from the ACLU's new report in April 2020: "A Tale of Two Countries: Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of Marijuana Reform"

 

• 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)

 

• THE AWFUL SUMMONS COURT SYSTEM IN NYC

 

NY City's Marijuana Possession Arrests

• GRAPHS & TABLES

• COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES

• JOURNALISM & COMMENTARY  

• POLICE PERJURY AND FALSIFYING: Excerpts
from the Mollen Report

• STOP & FRISK REPORTS AND DATA

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THE SCANDAL OF RACIST MARIJUANA ARRESTS
The federal government has subsidized the criminalization of millions of young people  by Harry Levine, the Marijuana Arrest Research Project

In a reader-friendly pdf:
http://marijuana-arrests.com/docs/The-scandal-of-racist-marijuana-arrests--TheNation--Nov2013.pdf

On The Nation's website as one page:
http://www.thenation.com/article/176915/scandal-racist-marijuana-arrests-and-what-do-about-it?page=full
 

 

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also see:

THE WAR ON MARIJUANA IN BLACK AND WHITE

Billions of Dollars Wasted on Racially-Biased Arrests

The ACLU's terrific 200 page report with graphs and data for 50 states
and hundreds of cities and counties

 

ACLU page for the report and links to the pdf
 https://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/war-marijuana-black-and-white-report

 Pdf of The War on Marijuana in Black and White
 https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/100413-mj-report-rfs-rel1.pdf

 Very good web materials about the report: animated charts, brief videos, more
 https://www.aclu.org/billions-dollars-wasted-racially-biased-arrests

 "End the Numbers Game: Police Should Not Be Rewarded for Making Marijuana Arrests"
 By Ezekiel Edwards, ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project & Vanita Gupta, ACLU Center for Justice
 https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-racial-justice/end-numbers-game-police-should-not-be-rewarded-making

 "The War on Marijuana Has a Latino Data Problem"
 By Lynda Garcia, Soros Fellow, Criminal Law Reform Project, ACLU
 https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-racial-justice/war-marijuana-has-latino-data-problem

"Slide Show of Graphs and Text from the ACLU's "War on Marijuana in Black and White"
http://marijuana-arrests.com/docs/War_On_Marijuana_graphs_and_text_from_ACLU_report_2013.pdf

 


 U.S. government studies consistently find that young whites use marijuana at higher rates than young blacks or Latinos.  Yet, in large cities and counties throughout the United States, young blacks and Latinos are arrested and jailed for marijuana possession at much higher rates than young whites.

 

In New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, police arrest blacks for marijuana possession at seven times the rate of whites.  Usually, the people arrested were not smoking in public. Police typically found the small amount of marijuana when they stopped, frisked, and searched the young people, often in their own neighborhoods.