NYPD Spent One Million Hours Arresting Marijuana Users: Report

[Purveyor]

Could New York hold the record for most pot possession arrests? A new report out Tuesday said police there spent about a million hours taking offenders into custody between 2002 and 2012.

The findings by the Drug Policy Alliance, which favors the decriminalization of the substance, was done at the request of members of the city council and the state legislature.

It shows that between 2002 and 2012, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the helm of the metropolis, 439,056 people were arrested for the possession of marijuana. Eighty-five percent were young blacks and Latinos.

Considering that one police officer takes at least two and a half hours to process such arrests — returning to the police station, gathering information, writing up a report, taking fingerprints, photos, etc — that adds up to more than a million hours of work on the matter, the report said.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/19/nypd-spent-one-million-hours-arresting-marijuana-users-report/

[Pullo]

1. With all of our budget problems .....

..... one would think the war on drugs would spotlighted by all the supposed "fiscal conservatives" as the HUGE waste of taxpayer dollars it is.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. Marijuana is a gateway drug

to processed sugary snacks.

[Ikonoklast]

5. I personally blame that tyrant Bloomberg for running Hostess Bakeries out of business.

All those locked-up Twinkie eaters finally did them in.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. Didn't the Twinkie get sold to the Mexico-based bakery "Bimbo"?

Just one more US drug addiction supplied by a Mexican cartel.

[Ikonoklast]

8. It's all part of the Grand Plan. Legalize marijuana, cash in like no tomorrow.

I wonder if Mayor Mike has any financial stake in Bimbo...*touches nose*...

[winter is coming]

11. Good one! n/t

[guardian]

3. Next

they will spend one million hours arresting people with 20 oz sodas. Then they will start arresting people that don't eat their designated ration of broccoli.

[KurtNYC]

7. Misogynist corporate propaganda

Bloomberg has backed and created greenmarkets throughout the city, green roofs, and bike paths both in midtown and on the rivers. The soda size limit was reaching too far and has been struck down but in general Bloomberg has given NYers healthier options and has mandated calorie counts on menus so that people can make their own choices based on good information. I support Bloomberg's push to give NYers healthier CHOICES.

It was the guy before him that wore dresses, tried to ban everything and tried to micromanage people's lives.

[guardian]

13. I'd like to see

someone ban this 1%ter douchebag's fois gras and cavier.

[KurtNYC]

14. Michael Bloomberg hasn't banned any foods

and I don't have a problem with someone giving people more information and more options to use their minds and their freedom to make their own choices. That doesn't fit the corporate PR frame you are advancing.

It seems beyond hypocritical to want to ban someone else's food choices when they haven't banned, or even tried to ban, any of yours.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

15. Someone should give Bloomberg the more information about jumping in a river

[MindPilot]

4. If they had just hid the pot behind the counters

"those people" wouldn't buy it.

oh wait...never mind.

[Initech]

9. You want to talk wasteful government spending look no further than the war on drugs.

[Comrade Grumpy]

10. Many of those arrests came under NYPD's racist stop-and-frisk program.

Which is right now being challlenged in federal court.

[Fumesucker]

12. The Law Enforcement Officer's Job Security and Wage Enhancement Act n/t