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The Summer front page of Pipe Dream. In , Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a new policy for enforcing marijuana laws. Elected officials and advocates are particularly disturbed that 86 percent of people arrested for marijuana offenses are black and Latino, though these communities represent only When examining the commission of other crimes across the city in terms of race, though, one finds similar, if not wider, racial disparities.
Based on victim reports, Robbery suspects were The distribution of misdemeanor-assault suspects, felony-assault suspects, and murder suspects is similar. Shooting suspects are Considering these figures, it seems unlikely that NYPD racism is a primary cause of marijuana arrests.
City neighborhoods with the most marijuana arrests often tend to be the same ones where most serious crime takes place: This correlation does not mean that open marijuana use is necessarily connected with the commission of crimes such as murder, felony assault, or grand larceny, but it does indicate that smoking marijuana in public may be more likely to occur in high-crime neighborhoods than in lower-crime areas. This leads to the main point that the NYPD representatives made throughout the council hearing: Merely citing statistical disparity in arrest rates for smoking marijuana does not prove racism on the part of the NYPD—especially when that same disparity exists, sometimes in higher proportion, across the spectrum of crime.
Elected officials should worry less about which minority group will receive the first post-legalization marijuana business licenses and focus more on minimizing social dysfunction in their communities. Send a question or comment using the form below.