Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: The pattern of misdemeanor marijuana arrests in New York City since the introduction of broken windows policing in 1994-nicely documented in Andrew Golub, Bruce Johnson, and Eloise Dunlap's article The Race/Ethnicity Disparity in Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests in New York City-is almost enough to make an outside observer ask: Who thought of this idea in the first place?And what were they smoking?By the year 2000, arrests on misdemeanor charges of smoking marijuana in public view (MPV) had reached a peak of 51,267 for the city, up 2,670 percent from 1,851 arrests in 1994.In 1993, the year before broken-windows policing was implemented, a New York City police precinct made, on average, 10 MPV arrests per year; by 2000, the police precincts were averaging 644 MPV arrests per year-almost 2 arrests per day per precinct.These misdemeanor MPV arrests accounted for 15 percent of all felony and misdemeanor arrests in New York City in 2000.That same year, New York City marijuana arrests represented 92 percent of the total 67,088 marijuana-related arrests in the State of New York.4 In addition, the pattern of arrests disproportionately targeted African-Americans and Hispanics in relation to their representation in the resident population.Although both
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Authors: Bernard E. Harcourt, Jens Ludwig
Institution: University of Chicago
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1602206788