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• REPORTS, PUBLICATIONS, TESTIMONY
By the Marijuana Arrest Research Project • THE SCANDAL OF RACIST
MARIJUANA ARRESTS • THE AWFUL SUMMONS COURT SYSTEM IN NYC Excerpts from the ACLU's new report in April 2020: "A Tale
of Two Countries: Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of Marijuana
Reform" NY City's Marijuana
Possession Arrests • POLICE
PERJURY AND FALSIFYING: Excerpts • STOP & FRISK REPORTS AND DATA __________________________________ __________________________________ Archives: No longer updated but still useful for researchers. • STOP & FRISK NYC (news excerpts) • U.S. MARIJUANA ARRESTS 1965-2013 ____________________________________ |
Young arrestees being led into the Brooklyn Court House in chains. Photo: Jarrett Murphy, City Limits
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 have been and still are arrested and jailed for marijuana possession at much higher rates than young whites. And this is happening right now, in 2020.
In New York, Chicago, and and many other large cities, police have arrested blacks for marijuana possession at seven times the rate of whites. Often 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.
Marijuana-Arrests.com is an online library of materials about the huge numbers of racially-biased marijuana possession arrests, their consequences, and the law enforcement policies and operations which produce them.
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