NY MJ arrests up for 7th straight year

[ed the head]

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/ ... ight-year/

Though arrests dropped significantly after Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly’s memorandum, an increase of 6 percent during the first eight months of the year more than offset the decline, according to the analysis, conducted by a Queens College sociology professor and released by the Drug Policy Alliance, an advocacy group critical of police marijuana-arrest policies.

[piedpiperofvice]

I was going to just remark"gee I wonder what color most of the people arrested were"..instead I thought I will read the article and sure enough that question was answered as anticipated