by Ezekiel Edwards DMIBlog With the NYPD facing difficult challenges such as combating terrorism and stopping the flow of illegal handguns into the city, what are the police arresting people for at a rate ten times greater than before 1997? Marijuana. But they aren’t arresting everyone who possesses marijuana; only poor people of color. When […]
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