An accountability expert described a possible way to reform New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy as the evidence phase in a trial on the issue wound down...
The manslaughter indictment against NYPD officer Richard Haste, who has been accused of shooting unarmed teen Ramarley Graham, was thrown out by a Bronx Judge on Wednesday,...
Thanks to aggressive policing strategies, New York City has for more than a decade been the world’s leader in marijuana possession arrests, but now those numbers are...
Christian Delarosa, a 34-year-old building superintendent with an almost superhuman ability to identify plant species, was foiled this week, as he spotted some Cannabis growing on the...
New York City police racially profile blacks and Latinos to “manufacture” marijuana offenses against them, five Bronx residents claim in Federal Court. Lead plaintiff Maurosol Felix sued New...
The NYPD has been under a lot of scrutiny for it’s “Stop-and-Frisk” tactic, which has been shown to unfairly target minorities. A new federal suit against the...
An NYPD inspector parsed words over whether he set “quotas” or “performance goals” for the number of people he wanted arrested or summonsed, in a trial challenging...
Lawmakers in Albany are still negotiating over the state budget, as part of the proposed deal, Governor Coumo is pushing for the decriminalization of small amounts of...
Curbing racial disparities in the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program requires a federal judge to act “boldly and broadly,” a civil rights lawyer said at...
The NYPD made 39,218 low-level marijuana possession arrests in 2012 (over 440,000 in past decade), each consuming an estimated 2.5 man hours of police work. Just a...
I am presenting at a symposium sponsored by the Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal, “The War on Drugs: Working Toward a Ceasefire,” this Wednesday 3/13...
The Committee on Drugs & the Law invites the public to a discussion on the current state of domestic marijuana laws and the possibilities for the future,...
013 Just one day after announcing at his final State of the City address that he’d reduce the penalty for the possession of small amounts of weed, Mayor Bloomberg took...
A federal judge certified the second of three class actions filed over the New York City Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk practices. Jaenean Ligon leads the class in...
In his final state of the city address Thursday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that people caught with small amounts of marijuana in the city will no...
There’s something fishy in a Virginia evidence room, a Louisiana deputy gets in trouble for peddling fake weed, three suburban Chicago cops were running a dirty racket,...
Sign of the Times is a recurring segment in which we head to Times Square and ask the people there what they think about current events. Since Colorado...
For the past two years, Drug War Chronicle has been tracking all the US deaths directly attributable to domestic drug law enforcement, including the border. You can...
