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Arrest numbers up to meet their quotas, and the easiest way for many of them to do that is to simply drive into black communities and stop and frisk black people, which they do in new york city as an official sanctioned policy of the department. there's money in those arrests, big money, federal money. the federal government has a program specifically directed at funding to enforce drug laws. all drug arrests, including misdemeanors, such as marijuana possession, must be reported to the federal government in order to receive the funds. in other words, the more arrests, the more money a police ...

Told "the new york times" whenever federal agencies encourage law enforcement to meet numerical arrest goals instead of public safety goals, it will likely promote stereotype based policing, and we can expect these sorts of racial gaps. that's a very polite way to put it, racial gaps. there's a way to stop the war on marijuana possession, to stop this overtly racist government program that's supported by every level of american government, local, state and federal, and the way to stop this racist program dead in its tracks is to have american law enforcement distribute a fair share of marijuan...