New York City: Pot Arrests For 2010 Top 50,000
NY law is supposed to have decriminalized marijuana, and yet, there were more than 50,000 marijuana arrests in 2010.
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"City police made over 50,000 arrests in 2010 for the crime of marijuana possession in public, according to statistics from the New York Division of Criminal Justice Services and analyzed by Queens College sociologist Harry Levine. New York city police made 50,383 lowest level marijuana possession arrests [NY State Penal Law 221.10] involving cases where marijuana was either used or possessed in public. The total is the second highest in the city's history and is an increase of over 5,000 percent from 1990, when police reported fewer than 1,000 low-level pot arrests."
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