NYC’s Racially-Biased Pot Arrests Continue, According to New Investigation

Merry Jane
May 14, 2018, 12:00 pm11 pts
Police officers in New York City arrest cannabis users of color at eight times the rate of white weed smokers, despite similar amounts of consumption across all ethnicities. And while NYPD officials would have you believe that the disparity is due to the volume of 911 and 311 weed complaints called in to local…

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