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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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

James Robinson, a four - star WR out of Florida, was cited for marijuana possession while visiting Ohio State last weekend.

4 - Star WR James Robinson was cited for marijuana possession on his Ohio State visit last weekend.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Last week, the states of Colorado and Washington became the first two states to legalize the possession and use of marijuana for recreational use.