Alberto Willmore: Arrested by NYPD for Smoking
A story broke earlier this month about a New York City school teacher named Alberto Willmore arrested for smoking weed. The only problem? Willmore was...
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Stop and Frisk
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Marijuana Possession Arrests Outpace Violent Crime Arrests
Marijuana possession arrests currently outpace violent-crime arrests. In 2011 there were just over 660,000 marijuana arrests vs. about 530,000 violent crime
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Cory Booker Opens Stop-And-Frisk Data To The Public
Newark Mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker has just begun testing a solution to the racial problems plaguing law enforcement’s use of stop-and-frisk...
Legalizing Cannabis in NYC Would Yield $431 Million Annually
Following the release of the study, City Comptroller and Mayoral candidate John Liu spoke out in favor of legalizing the consumption of cannabis by adults.
CNN Reports Changing Attitudes on Marijuana Policy
CNN reports that it’s not just the network’s medical expert Dr. Sanjay Gupta who has come around on marijuana policy reform.
NYPD Hammered for Targeting Minorities With Stop and Frisk
In the remedies opinion, Scheindlin noted that she wanted "to be very clear: I am not ordering an end to the practice of stop and frisk."
Obama Hints Support for Ray Kelly as Next Secretary of DHS
Ray Kelly, New York City’s police commissioner, has been a topic of discussion recently for the upcoming vacancy for the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Feds Expected to Back Monitor of New York Police
With a federal judge to order sweeping reforms to the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk program, the Justice Department plans to intervene.
'Remedy' Witness Takes Stand in Street Stop Case
In 2003, the NYPD agreed to institute a series of written reforms aimed to audit street stops in the case of Daniels v. The City of New York.
NYC Marijuana Possession Arrests Declining, But Still Sky High
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...
More Racial Profiling Claims in NYC, Marijuana Charges Abound
NYC police are racial profiling blacks and Latinos to "manufacture" marijuana offenses against them, five Bronx residents claim in Federal Court...
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Federal Suit Claims NYPD Trumps Up Possession Charges
A new federal suit against the NYPD filed for five individuals claims that the NYPD charged them with misdemeanors for having marijuana in public view.
Stop-and-Frisk Street Stops Used for Fear, N.Y. Senator Says
A New York senator kicked off the third week of a trial by saying that the city adopted stop-and-frisk policies to "instill fear" in minority communities.
NYPD Brass on Hot Seat in Stop-and-Frisk Trial
In a trial challenging stop-and-frisk, an NYPD inspector parsed words over whether he set "quotas" or "performance goals" for the number of people he...
Second NYPD Whistleblower Tells Why He Taped Brass
Serrano, a short, bald, round 8-year veteran of the NYPD, was the second officer to acknowledge at trial that he secretly taped his supervisors.
As NYC Pot Busts Continue, New York Punts on Marijuana Reform
People, almost all of them young people of color, are being arrested at the rate of a thousand a week in NYC for marijuana possession "in public view"...
Secret Roll Call Recordings Played in NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Trial
An NYPD officer testified that his bosses retaliated for his whistle-blowing on quotas by prosecuting for false statements on forms he was forced to sign.
Report: New York City Cops Spent One Million Hours In Staff Time Making Marijuana Possession Arrests
New York City police spent an estimated one million hours in staff time making low level marijuana possession arrests in the past decade.