STONED Over the past ten years, the NYPD has busted 400,000 people for carrying small amounts of marijuana, making NYC the "Marijuana Arrest Capitol" of the USA. This is not a good thing, according to Queens College sociologist Harry G. Levine, who spearheaded a study that suggested the cops singled out minorities for these arrests. Between 1997 and 2007, 52 percent of these arrested suspects were black, 31 percent were Hispanic and 15 were percent white. Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, says that the findings prove that "racial profiling is a fact of life on the streets of New York." Uh… yeah. A spokesman for the NYPD called Levine an "advocate for marijuana legalization." Way to try to misdirect those racial profiling accusations! [WCBSTV]
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