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Drug Possession: Kyung Ji Rhee: Fighting Against Unnecessary Criminalization of New York City Youth of Color

Take Action: bit.ly Kyung Ji Rhee is the Project Director of Institute for Juvenile Justice Reform and Alternatives, a division of Center for NuLeadership. Kyung Ji’s work focuses on New York City youth of color and how they are disproportionately impacted by the criminal justice system. 46% of NYC marijuana arrests are of young people between the ages of 16-22. Although private possession of marijuana was decriminalized in New York in 1977, New York is currently the Marijuana Arrests Capital of the World. Police make these arrests by exploiting a “loophole” in the law. Oftentimes, the police demand that people — usually young people of color — empty their pockets, and when they do, the violation for marijuana possession turns into an arrestable misdemeanor for marijuana in public view.

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