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SUMMARY:New York City’s Marijuana Arrest Policy Thirty Yea
 rs after Decriminalization
LOCATION:New York City Bar
DESCRIPTION:In 1977, New York State decriminalized possess
 ion of personal use amounts of marijuana. Nonethel
 ess, researchers report that New York City is now 
 the national leader in detaining individuals for p
 ossession of personal use amounts of marijuana. Be
 ginning with the advent of quality of life policin
 g, the New York City Police Department dramaticall
 y increased the number of arrests for marijuana po
 ssession: from 1997 to 2006 the Department arreste
 d 362,000 people for possessing marijuana, in 2006
  alone it arrested 33,000 people for marijuana pos
 session. The Department also commonly holds mariju
 ana possession arrestees in detention for up to 24
  hours pending arraignment. Published research ind
 icates that the marijuana possession arrests are n
 ot in central business districts, and that the pol
 ice primarily make the arrests in Black and Hispan
 ic neighborhoods. Join us for a discussion of the 
 costs and benefits of New York City's marijuana po
 ssession arrest policy. 
  
 Moderator: 
 JOHN 
 H. MCWHORTER 
 Senior Fellow, The Manhattan Insti
 tute Columnist, New York Sun 
  
 Speakers: 
 J
 OHN A. ETERNO, Ph.D. 
 Chairperson and Graduate P
 rogram Director, Department of Criminal Justice, M
 olloy College Managing Editor, Police Practice and
  Research NYPD Captain (ret.) 
  
 BRUCE D. JOHN
 SON, Ph.D. 
 Director, Institute for Special Popu
 lations Research, National Development and Researc
 h Institutes, Inc 
  
 HARRY G. LEVINE, Ph.D. 

  Professor of Sociology, Queens College and the Gr
 aduate Center, City University of New York 
  
 
 EDWARD D. MCCARTHY, J.D. 
 Criminal Defense Divis
 ion, Legal Aid Society of New York 
  
 DEBORAH 
 P. SMALL, J.D. 
 Executive Director, Break the Ch
 ains 
  
 Sponsored by: 
 Committee on Drugs an
 d the Law, Noah Potter, Chair 
  
 Co-Sponsored 
 by: 
 Corrections Committee, Judith M. Whiting, C
 hair 
  
 Members of the Association, their gues
 ts and all other interested persons are invited to
  attend. There is no fee for attending the program
 . Registration is necessary.
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