Posted on 06/19/2018 2:35:17 AM PDT by SMGFan
. More lenient pol policy
is expected today
Mayor de Blasio and the NYPD will roll out plans Tuesday to issue summonses rather than make arrests for smoking marijuana — with a lengthy list of exceptions — following a 30-day review of ways to end racial disparities in the weed arrests, two sources said Monday.
The overwhelming majority of those arrested in New York for marijuana crimes — 86% — are black or Hispanic, despite studies showing people of all races use the drug with equal frequency. De Blasio pledged to take on that issue about a month ago via a 30-day review by NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill of the city’s marijuana laws — and then announced just a week into that review that the city would cease arresting people for smoking in public.
That’s the crux of Tuesday’s announcement, according to the sources who are familiar with it — but it will also include the circumstances under which someone can still be arrested.
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Hmmmm, still collecting attacks in the form of a summons and with the added benefit of not paying taxpayers money to house criminal Behavior, and all wrapped up in a nice little package that says the Democrats care about you getting high. Democrats can really twist logic all around so that one actually thanks them for for the robbery.
Welcome to the 70s, folks.
When I worked in Manhattan, I saw all sorts of people smoking reefer - and you could smell it everywhere - but never did I see anyone getting arrested for it. My guess is the marijuana law is there to assist with cleaning up the streets, as in Giuliani’s quality of life campaign. I’m sure Comrade De Blasio will screw this one up, too.
I never saw marijuana smoking past the 70s - never. But then I was in Manhattan all the time not some of the “poorer” boroughs or the upper reaches of Harlem. I loathe the smell of mj.
The mailroom boys used to sit outside on the plaza in front of my office, surrounded by a cloud of dope, both at lunch and before they went into work. It probably explained why they could never deliver the mail right and why they never progressed beyond the mailroom.
But I never saw anyone get arrested, or even cited, and this was about 20 years ago. The law was primarily used for breaking up bunches of threatening people hanging around buildings uptown, usually because their decent neighbors had called and asked the police to get them off the stoop. It was a tool, in other words.
The curious thing is that you can get cited (or possibly even arrested) for smoking regular cigarettes in parks and other public places. But I guess dope is different. Stay stupid, people. De Blasio likes you that way.
“,,,but never did I see anyone getting arrested for it...”
But god forbid if you get caught smoking a cigarette.
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