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Bluenorthwest

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2. 7. Also applies to Hispanics who are also arrested disproportionately in the States that still feel
Sat Jul 2, 2016, 07:12 AM
Jul 2016

compelled to arrest people for cannabis. In both groups and also among arrested whites, 91% are male and a strong majority is under 26 years of age. So it's mostly young black and Latino men being arrested in such bastions of liberty as NYC, which has reduced low level possession arrests to under 17,000 a year from a high of over 50,000 but again, other States don't arrest those people at all. NYC has been doing this and doing it racist style my entire adult life. Over 700,000 such arrests in the last 20 years. This is a large part of why I do not live in NY.

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