AN ONLINE LIBRARY ABOUT MARIJUANA POSSESSION ARRESTS,
RACE AND POLICE POLICY IN NEW YORK CITY AND BEYOND

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• FIRST PAGE   

 

The Scandal of Racist Marijuana Arrests
(new Nov 2013 - from The Nation,
and
The War on Marijuana in Black and White
from the ACLU)

 


NY City's Marijuana Possession Arrests

• DOCUMENTING THE ARREST CRUSADE

• JOURNALISM & COMMENTARY

• GRAPHS & TABLES

• COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES

 

Stop and Frisk New York 

• STOP & FRISK REPORTS AND DATA

• STOP & FRISK NYC (news excerpts)
• QUOTAS, QUOTAS, QUOTAS

• SCANDALS OF THE NYPD

• 550,000 NYPD SUMMONSES A YEAR

 

Race and Marijuana Arrests, USA

• 210,000 Marijuana Arrests in Colorado

• 240,000 Marijuana Arrests in Washington

• U.S. MARIJUANA ARRESTS 1965-2010

• CALIFORNIA

• WASHINGTON DC, CHICAGO, ETC.
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• ABOUT MARIJUANA-ARRESTS.COM

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• ILLEGAL SEARCHES (coming)

 

 

 

Source: New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, Computerized Criminal History System (April 2008).
Includes all fingerprintable arrests for NYS Penal Law Article 221 misdemeanor offenses as the most serious charge.
Ages 16 and older. 1978 data was used for 1977.
 

 

 

 

 

GRAPHS & TABLES

Mayors and Marijuana Arrests in NYC, 1978-2011

Marijuana Possession Arrests of Blacks, Latinos, Whites,
and Others, 1996-2011

Two Graphs of Marijuana Possession Arrests in NYC

White, Black and Latino Marijuana Use and Arrests

Three Decades of Marijuana Arrests in New York City

Possession Obsession - NY Times Graph of NYC Arrests

Highest and Lowest MJ Arrest Rate NYPD Precincts

Numbers of NYC Marijuana Possession Arrests, 1996-2010

Marijuana Use by Whites, Blacks & Latinos, Ages 18-25, 02-09

Two Maps of NYPD Precincts: MJ Arrests and Pop by Race