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RACE AND POLICE POLICY IN NEW YORK CITY AND BEYOND

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MARIJUANA POSSESSION ARRESTS IN CALIFORNIA

 

Arresting Blacks for Marijuana in California, 2007-2009. By Harry Levine, Jon Gettman & Loren Siegel. Oct 2010.  

Report released with California NAACP and the Drug Policy Alliance about arrests of  blacks for marijuana possession in 25 California cities where blacks are arrested at 4, 6, 8 and even 12 times the rate of whites.

 

Arresting Latinos for Marijuana in California, 2007-2009. By Harry Levine, Jon Gettman & Loren Siegel. Oct 2010. 

Report released with Latino civil rights organization about the disproportionate arrests of Latinos for marijuana possession in 33 California cites.

 

Targeting Blacks For Marijuana: Possession Arrests in California, 2004-08. By Harry Levine, Jon Gettman & Loren Siegel, June-July 2010 
Report released in conjunction with the California NAACP and the Drug Policy Alliance about arrests of  blacks for marijuana possession in the 25 largest counties in California.

 

 

Media Commentary and Coverage

 

Marijuana Law Reform Is a Civil Rights Issue, Alice Huffman, president of the California NAACP, 2010

This is the first major statement by a civil right leader insisting that racially-biased marijuana possession arrests are a civil rights issue.

 

Los Angeles Times "Marijuana Profiling: Though they use marijuana less, more blacks than whites are arrested for it, a new study shows" EDITORIAL.  Oct 27, 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                       

Above graph is from the  New York Times, October 22. 2010: HERE