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In a statement released on Tuesday, Mr. de Blasio said that his administration had taken «clear steps to reduce unnecessary arrests and strengthen our officers» relationship with the community,» noting, among other things, changes to the city's marijuana arrest policy.
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Speaking in Washington on Tuesday, the mayor promised the NYPD would reform and overhaul marijuana arrest policies.
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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.
«We have changed our marijuana policy to reduce low - level arrests, and we have launched a new pilot program for body cameras for officers to improve transparency and accountability.»
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.
Also at noon, the Marijuana Arrest Research Project will release a major report commissioned by the Drug Policy Alliance: «Unjust and Unconstitutional: 60,000 Jim Crow Marijuana Arrests in Mayor de Blasio's New York,» City Hall steps, Manhattan.
In 2014, Thompson began what the DA's office called a groundbreaking policy not to prosecute low - level marijuana possession arrests.
Blacks and Latinos made up 80 percent of the nearly 23,000 people arrested for marijuana - related crimes in New York in 2016, according to a report from the Drug Policy Alliance.
Even the city's liberal Democrat mayor, who has pushed policing reforms including the decrease in criminal arrests of low - level marijuana possession, is opposed the policy shift.
New York Police Department Commissioner James O'Neill said in a statement Tuesday the department would form a working group to review policies and procedures for arrests and summonses for marijuana offenses.
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.
And while his base may want more, Mr. de Blasio can point to several police reforms in his first year: a dramatic drop in the number of people stopped by police; a staggering decline in marijuana arrests thanks to a policy change; a plan to roll out body cameras in accordance with a federal lawsuit.
After telling reporters repeatedly in recent weeks that «I'm not there yet» on the idea of legalizing recreational marijuana in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that the city's Police Department will «overhaul» its marijuana enforcement policies, after YEARS of reporting showing that significant racial disparities persist in the Department's arrests for marijuana - related offenses.
New York City has made strides in loosening up policies related to marijuana — in 2014, the city decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, leading to the lowest level of marijuana related arrests in since 1996.
«By implementing a new policy of issuing a summons rather than arresting New Yorkers for possessing small amounts of marijuana, the mayor and commissioner have taken a significant step towards ensuring fewer New Yorkers face the consequences that arrest records bring,» Mr. Torres said on November 10 in a joint statement with Councilmen Carlos Menchaca, Donovan Richards and Antonio Reynoso — all of whom came out today in support of the Right to Know Act.
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.
«It would eliminate the unnecessary human costs of marijuana prohibition the form of arrest that disproportionately impact our black and Latino communities,» said Hoffnung, who says it would also end «senseless policies that criminalize» recreational users.
But Torres said the marijuana policy shift does not go far enough, only replacing «racially discriminatory arrests with racially discriminatory summonses.»
The policy shift follows a similar one rolled out by former Commissioner Raymond Kelly, who sought to put an end to the practice of police officers asking people to empty their pockets — and then, when they did and took out marijuana, arresting them for possessing the drug in plain view.
«We know that the broken policy of stop - and - frisk and we know that the approach to marijuana arrests that was taken historically disproportionately affected African - American and Latino communities,» de Blasio said.
The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), which has been leading a campaign to tackle racial disparities in marijuana enforcement, pointed out that last year, de Blasio blasted the DPA over its report outlining the 60,000 arrests, referring to it misleading.
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.
New York City will overhaul and reform its policies related to marijuana possession arrests amid persisting racial disparities in enforcement despite a policy change in 2014.