NYPD's Racist Marijuana Arrest Crusade

[tr1ll]

Originally Posted by DEpast

If you don't wanna to be caught or unfairly searched for marijuana, don't drive a Caprice Classic on 28s with 5 percent tint.

That's asking for it.

Profiling.

 

[mo matik]

Not long after I vaguely criticized our leaders in the OP for not standing up on this issue:
[h1]Newark Mayor Cory Booker Declares Drug War ‘A Failure,’ Endorses Medical Marijuana[/h1]

Newark Mayor Cory Booker delivered a harsh critique of America’s war on drugs in a series of tweets last night. Booker described the war on drugs as a multi-billion dollar failure. Booker highlighted the disproportionate impact the drug war has on African-Americans and suggested the need to move away from incarceration as our policy response. Booker stopped short of endorsing full legalization of any drug. He did, however, call on New Jersey to legalize medical marijuana:

Drug war is a failure costing billions of tax dollars annually AND destroying lives, plus it has a glaring racial component @LibProgressivehttps://twitter.com/LibProgressive

https://twitter.com/LibProgressive

In NJ blacks are about 15% of population but over 60% of prison population and DRUGS fuels much of the incarceration @LibProgressive
https://twitter.com/LibProgressive

So yes we need to radically change the conversation from INCARCERATION to what will really end this national nightmare. @LibProgressivehttps://twitter.com/LibProgressive


https://twitter.com/LibProgressive

 

[john sterling]

Originally Posted by malikdagoat

Originally Posted by ToppShotta

Originally Posted by Mo Matik



Could you elaborate? These statistics are indicative of systemic racial inequality established by police policy. That means the strategies that the police are using to fight the drug war are targeting black and Latino minorities, when every study shows that marijuana is used widely by all racial groups. I don't see how they could be disregarded or even manipulated.

JDashR's post outlines what happens in NYC, which is pretty relaxed compared to some other parts of the country. And sure, there are steps you can take to prevent getting caught. But just stop thinking about this matter on the individual level, and start thinking about the impact of this on a communal level. Things are what they are; people will continue to smoke pot, enjoy it, and get caught with it, even if "it's not that hard" not to. What matters is the societal impact of such racial inequality established by policy that we can have an impact on.

Ok, maybe thats my problem right there.

What I meant was, I don't think NYPD or other big departments are targeting minority communities on the basis of race alone. I think they're targeting felonious crimes (trying to get guns, stolen cars, narcotics distributors etc.) in neighborhoods with high crime rates. And those neighborhoods happen to be minority neighborhoods.

Basically, what Im trying to say is stop blaming police for this inequality. Education and other institutions player a much larger role than the "racist" NYPD.

But it's been shown time and time again, not just in NYC but in all over the country, when whites are actually searched they are more likely to have drugs on them than minorities are.
Fact is if police stop and frisked random white persons at the same rate they did minorities you'd have just as many, possibly even more, whites getting arrested for drug related offenses as minorities.  Which would also mean people would have to start to accept that whites might be just as likely to be "criminals" as blacks and latinos.  This nation isn't ready to accept that yet.

Stop defending blatant racism by passing the blame onto something else.  This is why this country doesn't get anywhere because people don't want to deal with the issue at hand.

P.S. This is in no way throwing shade on my white brothers on NT, I'm just stating the reality.

Based on what exactly?

 

[josebronx]

If my eyes were like that I wouldve started been smoking, homeboy looks like he has something worst than glaucoma

 

[marinadelrey]

overrated cities will be overrated

 

[ninjahood]

Originally Posted by Tr1ll

Originally Posted by JohnnyRedStorm

Decriminalize it already.

Never going to happen.This pretty much proves that its an excuse to harass young blacks and latinos.

weed subsidizes police officer employment..without weed alot of them cats would be outta a damn job.

 

[rex ryan]

new york is wayyyyyyyyyyy to strict on weed and i don't appreciate it.

i like to smoke when and where i want to smoke and that shouldn't be an issue.  

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

Originally Posted by JewSeeJay

Originally Posted by rashi

I seriously don't know how they hell people live in NYC.

this. living in fear is for the birds.

I totally agree..

 

[an dee 51o]

Originally Posted by Tr1ll

Originally Posted by DEpast

If you don't wanna to be caught or unfairly searched for marijuana, don't drive a Caprice Classic on 28s with 5 percent tint.

That's asking for it.

Profiling.

It IS profiling and it IS wrong, but it's dumb to call attention to yourself like that.