New York City DAs Accused Of Racism In Prosecuting Low-Level Marijuana Cases
For years now, the city has said it will dial back arrests and prosecution of low-level marijuana cases: in 2014, Mayor de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Bratton said the city would start handing out more tickets and summonses in place of arrests, and the Brooklyn District Attorney's office said it would no longer prosecute most cases in which people were caught with amounts of marijuana under 25 grams. But according to the Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP), it's all just lip service: earlier this month, the group found that arrests for the possession or sale of small amounts of marijuana had increased by nearly 34% in the first quarter of 2016, and in a new report out today, PROP is accusing the city's district attorneys of racially discriminatory practices in their prosecution of such offenses.
PROP obtained data from the New York State Division of...
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