Drug Possession: Scott D. Levy: Tracking Unlawful Marijuana Arrests and Biased Police Practices
Drug Possession: Scott D. Levy: Tracking Unlawful Marijuana Arrests and Biased Police Practices
Take Action: bit.ly Scott D. Levy is a Bronx Defender Attorney and the director of the Bronx Defender Marijuana Arrest Project. Scott’s project tracks the marijuana arrests cases that occur in the Bronx. 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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