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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Do Fewer Marijuana Arrests Mark a Change in the NYPD's Policing Philosophy? 🌿Do Fewer Marijuana Arrests Mark a Change in the NYPD's Policing Philosophy?
New Yorkers may be toking more brazenly than ever before, but the NYPD says marijuana arrests are the lowest they've been in almost two decades.
In 2015, arrests for sale, felony possession, and low-level criminal possession of marijuana in New York city were down by 11,000 — for a total of just under 22,000. "We have not seen this low level of marijuana arrests in New York City since 1997," said NYPD Deputy Commissioner Dermot Shea during a press conference on the city's overall reduction in crime. "That's a 33-percent reduction, that's on top of the big reduction last year."
At the end of 2014, the city saw over a 60-percent reduction in marijuana arrests following Mayor Bill de Blasio's then-new decriminalization policy of not arresting those with less than 25 grams of marijuana, so long as it wasn't visible or burning. Criminal possession marijuana arrests dropped...
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