Sentences with phrase «for marijuana possession arrests»

NEW YORK - A City Council meeting got heated Monday over claims the NYPD targets people of color for marijuana possession arrests.

Not exact matches

Since it took office in 2006, arrests for marijuana possession have jumped by some 40 per cent and harsher mandatory penalties have been imposed for growing as few as six plants.

According to a Washington Post investigation, in the last 25 years, arrests for marijuana possession have tripled as a percentage of overall arrests.

There's the report that «Whites and blacks use marijuana at roughly the same rates; on average, however, blacks are 3.7 times more likely than whites to be arrested for possession,» and that «blacks are more than 10 times as likely as whites to go to prison for drug offenses.»

This is the same woman that crashed the car with him in it last year when he was arrested for marijuana possession, which almost cost him his job.

Jaguars WR Justin Blackmon had already been suspended for the first four games of the 2014 - 15 season before he was arrested for marijuana possession in Edmond, Oklahoma.

I've never been arrested or around marijuana at all except when I arrested someone for possession.

They are also three times more likely to arrest black people rather than issue a citation for marijuana possession and CMPD is 76 percent white.

Bell was suspended for the first three games of last season (later reduced to two) for a violation of the policy on substances of abuse after he was arrested for marijuana possession and DUI in the summer of 2014.

After Georgia won its first SEC title in 20 years, nine players were found to have hocked their title rings on eBay, and five players were arrested for marijuana possession.

«We've dramatically reduced the overuse and abuse of stop - and - frisk, initiated a comprehensive plan to retrain the entire NYPD to reduce the use of excessive force and to work with the community, reduced arrests for minor marijuana possession, and given officers body cameras to improve transparency and accountability,» de Blasio said.

The NYPD arrested 18,136 people for marijuana possession in 2016 — a 9 percent increase from 2015, according to data provided by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said the NYPD would have a plan within 30 days to slash arrests for marijuana possession, though he did not provide any details about how enforcement would change.

Gillibrand said black and Latino New Yorkers are arrested 10 times more often than whites for marijuana possession.

He said the city also established policies like eliminating arrests for low - level marijuana possession, saying that arrests in many cases are a last resort.

This usually crops up when young people of color are asked to empty their pockets by police (yes, even now that the NYPD has reduced the frequency of stop - and - frisks); in 2010, the state arrested more than 100,000 people for marijuana possession, leaving more reactionary destinations like Texas in the dust.

When City Councilman Daniel Dromm (D - Jackson Heights) criticized Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration for the large number of marijuana possession arrests made on his watch and advocated for legalizing medical marijuana, he said he was not dismissing the drug's ill effects.

There were 17,880 arrests in NYC last year for which the most serious charge was low - level misdemeanor marijuana possession, according to the state Department of Criminal Justice Services.

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While marijuana arrests have dropped significantly since the mayor took office, 86 percent of the people arrested for marijuana possession in the fifth degree during 2017 were people of color; 48 percent were black and 38 percent were Hispanic.

Last year, 86 percent of those arrested for low - level marijuana possession were black and Hispanic.

But it does not turn over individuals arrested for low - level crimes such as possession of small amount of marijuana or blowing a stoplight without damaging people or property, or even for more serious nonviolent violations like money laundering, grand larceny or harassment.

The vast majority of people who are arrested for marijuana possession are of color, while usage of whites is largely at comparable levels, Nixon said.

NYC arrested 16,925 people last year for low - level marijuana possession and smoking in public, a decline of only 1 percentage point from the previous year's total of 17,097, even though de Blasio said he would cut down on arrests.

49 - year - old Edward Prott of Southhaven was a passenger in the vehicle; he was also arrested for criminal possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of marijuana.

He has also expanded paid sick leave and the living wage law, altered the policy for making marijuana possession arrests and laid the groundwork for a municipal identification card designed to serve undocumented immigrants.

There were 205 arrests for marijuana possession last year in Albany County, according to statistics compiled by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, and more than 25,000 such arrests statewide.

Worst of all, this system has resulted in a civil rights disaster: African Americans are dramatically more likely to be arrested for pot possession than whites, despite similar rates of marijuana use among both groups.»

This whole medicinal pot issue is a little thorny, since marijuana is illegal under federal law — period, end of story, even in states that have passed legislation or ballot initiatives making the drug legal for use by people who are sick, those individuals are still subject to arrest by federal officials for possession or cultivation.

In Part 1 of his weekly «Mondays with the Mayor» interview on NY1, Mayor de Blasio talks to Errol Louis about combating bad behavior in politics, the city's approach to sexual harassment complaints, and the disproportionate number of blacks and Latinos being arrested for marijuana possession.

«A lot of our resources are spent dealing with arresting and detention of individuals who are in there for drug possession, and I think we need to reform not only how we deal with the legalization of marijuana, but our sentencing reform, holistically,» Shaw said.

Cops continued to arrest more black and Latino New Yorkers for marijuana possession last year because the most complaints about people smoking pot came from neighborhoods of color, a top NYPD official told the City Council Monday.

Gabriel Sayegh, New York state director for the Drug Policy Alliance, said 50,683 people in the city were arrested for the lowest level of marijuana possession in 2011.

Another stalled piece of legislation was the plan to reduce penalties for public possession of small amounts of marijuana — which has been linked to a surge in arrests of young black and Latino men who have been stopped - and - frisked by police officers in New York City.

And during his watch over the past 30 months, serious crime in New York has fallen to new record lows, with fewer arrests of misdemeanor offenders, particularly for marijuana possession and other quality - of - life violations.

Ruzbacki, whose campaign was upset after he was arrested in October for unlawful possession of marijuana, received 10 percent of the vote against Little's 75 percent.

The New York Police Department arrested 18,136 people for marijuana possession in 2016, a 9 percent increase from 2015, according to data provided by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.

According to 2017 statistics compiled by the state, blacks accounted for 48 percent of arrests in New York City for the lowest level of marijuana possession, while Latinos accounted for 38 percent, compared to 9 percent for whites.

Despite his own move to reduce arrests for marijuana possession, Mayor Bill de Blasio said tonight he does not support Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's call to decriminalize other offenses, like fare - beating.

He also said that NYPD reduced marijuana arrests by about 38,000 since four years ago and that the city stopped arresting people for low - level possession.

New Yorkers will no longer necessarily be arrested for low - level marijuana offenses, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner Bill Bratton said today, announcing that in many cases of possession of the drug, police can write a summons instead.

«Too many New Yorkers without any prior convictions have been arrested for low - level marijuana possession.

At the press conference, they called for individuals to receive summonses for low - level marijuana possession instead of being arrested.

Police officers will have discretion over whether to write a summons for possession of marijuana in public view or make an arrest, Bratton said.

In her State of the City address, Ms. Mark - Viverito proposed expanding the use of desk appearance tickets, or DATs, in lieu of arrests — mirroring Mr. de Blasio's new policy of issuing DATs for possession of small amounts of marijuana.

A misdemeanor arrest for marijuana possession, which happen more often to young people of color, can hurt their chances of getting a job or qualifying for student loans.

At a City Council hearing on Monday, Queens Councilman Rory Lancman, chairman of the Committee on Justice Systems, asked the city's five district attorneys to decline to prosecute individuals who are arrested for low - level marijuana possession for misdemeanors.

As mayor, de Blasio and his former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton decriminalized — that is, stopped making arrests for — the possession of 25 grams of marijuana or less.

A spokesman for Mr. Bloomberg rejected the notion that the Police Department acted with racial bias in arresting people for marijuana possession.

«Some of our police officers are making race - based discretionary decisions on who they're going to arrest for low - level marijuana possession,» said Leroy Gadsden, the president of a branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Jamaica, Queens, and the chairman of the criminal justice committee for the statewide N.A.A.C.P. «Therefore, of course, if you're a young, black male, even a female, you're going to feel that you're being targeted when you notice that your white counterparts are not being arrested for the same thing.»