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

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OUR REPORTS, PUBLICATIONS, TESTIMONY

 

The Scandal of Racist Marijuana Arrests
(From The Nation, and The War on Marijuana
in Black and White
from the ACLU
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THE AWFUL SUMMONS COURT SYSTEM IN NYC

 

NY City's Marijuana Possession Arrests

JOURNALISM & COMMENTARY

GRAPHS & TABLES

• COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES

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Archives: No longer updated but still useful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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WASHINGTON, D.C. & CHICAGO: News Stories

 

 

 

WASHINGTON D.C.
 

 

Washington City Paper. "Crime Stats Show D.C. Leads Nation In Per Capita Marijuana Arrests The vast majority of people arrested on pot charges are black. Why?"  By Rend Smith, August 13, 2010

 

Forbes. "Race and the Drug War."  by E.D. Kain. August 19, 2011

 

Andrew Sullivan: The Dish. Who Gets Punished?  August 22, 2011

 

 

 

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CHICAGO

 

 

 

 

The Chicago Reader.  "The Grass Gap: People all over Chicago smoke pot—but almost everyone busted for it is black."  By Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky. July 7, 2011

 

The Chicago Reader.  "What is pot prosecution good for? Little rhyme or reason in reefer cases." By Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky.  August 11, 2011.

 

The Chicago Reader. "Two Chicago pols say it's time to talk about legalizing pot."  by Mick Dumke. Aug 16, 2011

 

The Chicago Reader. "As Preckwinkle renews call to decriminalize pot possession, police arguing amongst themselves."  by Mick Dumke.  July 28, 2011 

 

Chicago Sun Times. "Preckwinkle wants police to stop making low-level marijuana arrests."  by Lisa Donovan. July 27, 2011

 

Huffington Post. "Toni Preckwinkle To Chicago Cops: Stop Making Low-Level Drug Arrests." July 28, 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graphs and Images By Ray Noland, Chicago Reader. Research and text by Mick Dumke and Ben Jorvasky

 

 

 

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