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Our next marijuana frontier

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"New York City's marijuana arrests are also racially skewed, reports Harry G. Levine, Queens College sociologist. Arrests for small amounts of marijuana in New York City have skyrocketed to unprecedented heights, he reports, with blacks (26 percent of the city's population) making up 52 percent of arrests, and Latinos (27 percent of the population) 31 percent. For the cops, this is good business, notes Levine: "Narcotics and patrol police, their supervisors and top commanders" benefit from arrests that "are comparatively safe, allow officers and their supervisors to accrue overtime pay, and produce arrest numbers that show productivity." Our next marijuana frontier By Neal Peirce Syndicated Columnist Daily Hampshire Gazette 07/12/2010 Close to 40 years after Richard Nixon sparked America's "war on drugs," California voters this November get to vote on the war's biggest challenge ever...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 13, 2010 (boomark / email).