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

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

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• HOME PAGE SPRING 2020 • LEGALIZATION IS NOT ENOUGH Excerpts from the ACLU's new report in April 2020: "A Tale of Two Countries: Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of Marijuana Reform" • REPORTS, PUBLICATIONS, TESTIMONY By the Marijuana Arrest Research Project • THE SCANDAL OF RACIST MARIJUANA ARRESTS (From The Nation, and The War on Marijuana in Black and White from the ACLU) • THE AWFUL SUMMONS COURT SYSTEM IN NYC NY City's Marijuana Possession Arrests • GRAPHS & TABLES • COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES • JOURNALISM & COMMENTARY • POLICE PERJURY AND FALSIFYING: Excerpts from the Mollen Report • STOP & FRISK REPORTS AND DATA __________________________________ • ABOUT MARIJUANA-ARRESTS.COM ________________________________ Archives: No longer updated but still useful for researchers. • QUOTAS, QUOTAS, QUOTAS • BRATTON'S BROKEN WINDOWS • POLICE PERJURY AND FALSIFYING: Excerpts from the Mollen Report • SCANDALS OF THE NYPD • U.S. MARIJUANA ARRESTS 1965-2013 • WASHINGTON DC, CHICAGO, ETC ____________________________________	STOP AND FRISK REPORTS, DATA, GRAPHS The NYPD's many racially-biased marijuana possession arrests are a product of its even larger number of racially-biased stop and frisks, over 5 million recorded stops during only Bloomberg's twelve years as Mayor, and an unknown number of unrecorded ones. The following offer some help in understanding what has been going on. Amsterdam Ave, NYC NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (NYCLU) The NYCLU has filed federal law suits, fought for reform legislation, and done much else to force the NYPD to make public its data and try to curb its intrusive and biased stops and frisks. This links to the NYCLU's listing of stops and frisks from 2004 through 2019 with links to other information. STOP AND FRISK NUMBERS (# of blacks, whites, Latinos, innocent 2004-2019) NYCLU 2019 REPORT ON STOP AND RISK "Stop-and-Frisk in the de Blasio Era" CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (CCR) The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed two federal law suits against the NYPD and its stop and frisk practices, and sought in multiple ways to bring the issue before policy makers and the general public. Below are links to various documents with links to yet others at the CCR Stop and Frisk pages showing graphs, videos, links. STOP AND FRISK SEARCH -- LISTING OF CURRENT ARTICLES, REPORTS, & MORE REPORT: Racial Disparity in NYPD Stop and Frisks Floyd et al v NYPD (current case and documents) Daniels et al v the NYPD (older case, filed in 1999, settled in 2007) Dr. Delores Jones-Brown et al. Stop, Question & Frisk Policing Practices In New York City: A Primer. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, 2013. With an introduction by Jeremy Travis Professor Delores Jones-Brown's "Primer" has tables, graphs, and key information about the NYPD's stop and frisks. As Jeremy Travis explains in his introduction, the Primer "presents available data on stop, question and frisk practices in New York City" including trends, maps, reported reasons for the stops, "results of the stops, and the racial breakdown of the New Yorkers who have been stopped." In its final pages the report includes links to: The 1999 report on stop and frisks by the office of NY State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer; the Center for Constitional Right's class action law suits against the NYPD and supporting documents; the NYPD's commissioned Rand report, and other material. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stop, Question and Frisk in New York Neighborhoods (Interactive Map at NY Times) July 11, 2011 NEW YORK TIMES CHART SHOWING WHITE AND BLACK POPULATION AND POLICE STOPS IN 2007 New York Times article about Stop and Frisk in NY Neighborhoods, July 12, 2010.

• HOME PAGE SPRING 2020

• LEGALIZATION IS NOT ENOUGH

Excerpts from the ACLU's new report in

April 2020: "A Tale of Two Countries:

Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of Marijuana Reform"

• REPORTS, PUBLICATIONS, TESTIMONY

By the Marijuana Arrest Research Project

• THE SCANDAL OF RACIST MARIJUANA ARRESTS
(From The Nation, and The War on Marijuana in Black and White from the ACLU)

• THE AWFUL SUMMONS COURT SYSTEM IN NYC

NY City's Marijuana Possession Arrests

• GRAPHS & TABLES

• COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES

• JOURNALISM & COMMENTARY

• POLICE PERJURY AND FALSIFYING: Excerpts from the Mollen Report

• STOP & FRISK REPORTS AND DATA

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• ABOUT MARIJUANA-ARRESTS.COM

________________________________

Archives: No longer updated but still useful

for researchers.
• QUOTAS, QUOTAS, QUOTAS

• BRATTON'S BROKEN WINDOWS

• POLICE PERJURY AND FALSIFYING: Excerpts
from the Mollen Report

• SCANDALS OF THE NYPD

• U.S. MARIJUANA ARRESTS 1965-2013

• WASHINGTON DC, CHICAGO, ETC

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STOP AND FRISK REPORTS, DATA, GRAPHS

The NYPD's many racially-biased marijuana possession arrests are a product of its even larger number of racially-biased stop and frisks, over 5 million recorded stops during only Bloomberg's twelve years as Mayor, and an unknown number of unrecorded ones. The following offer some help in understanding what has been going on.

Amsterdam Ave, NYC

NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (NYCLU)

The NYCLU has filed federal law suits, fought for reform legislation, and done much else to force the NYPD to make public its data and try to curb its intrusive and biased stops and frisks. This links to the NYCLU's listing of stops and frisks from 2004 through 2019 with links to other information.

STOP AND FRISK NUMBERS (# of blacks, whites, Latinos, innocent 2004-2019)

NYCLU 2019 REPORT ON STOP AND RISK "Stop-and-Frisk in the de Blasio Era"

CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (CCR)

The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed two federal law suits against the NYPD and its stop and frisk practices, and sought in multiple ways to bring the issue before policy makers and the general public. Below are links to various documents with links to yet others at the CCR Stop and Frisk pages showing graphs, videos, links.

STOP AND FRISK SEARCH -- LISTING OF CURRENT ARTICLES, REPORTS, & MORE

REPORT: Racial Disparity in NYPD Stop and Frisks
Floyd et al v NYPD (current case and documents)
Daniels et al v the NYPD (older case, filed in 1999, settled in 2007)

Dr. Delores Jones-Brown et al. Stop, Question & Frisk Policing Practices In New York City: A Primer. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, 2013. With an introduction by Jeremy Travis

Professor Delores Jones-Brown's "Primer" has tables, graphs, and key information about the NYPD's stop and frisks. As Jeremy Travis explains in his introduction, the Primer "presents available data on stop, question and frisk practices in New York City" including trends, maps, reported reasons for the stops, "results of the stops, and the racial breakdown of the New Yorkers who have been stopped." In its final pages the report includes links to: The 1999 report on stop and frisks by the office of NY State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer; the Center for Constitional Right's class action law suits against the NYPD and supporting documents; the NYPD's commissioned Rand report, and other material.

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Stop, Question and Frisk in New York Neighborhoods (Interactive Map at NY Times) July 11, 2011

NEW YORK TIMES CHART SHOWING WHITE AND BLACK POPULATION AND POLICE STOPS IN 2007

New York Times article about Stop and Frisk in NY Neighborhoods, July 12, 2010.