1. Arrests of Black & Brown people rose in Colorado. Plummeted for whites. SOURCE: https://www.npr.org/2016/06/29/483954157/as-adults-legally-smoke-pot-in-colorado-more-minority-kids-arrested-for-it … 2. Arrests in New York went up. SOURCE:https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2017/02/marijuana-arrests-in-nyc-increase-in-2016-still-large-racial-disparities-109306 …
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It looks like arrest rates for black and brown people under 21 went up. That’s bad but not the same as arrests for the total black and brown population going up.
Also: Source 1: http://www.newsweek.com/pot-arrests-rising-and-youre-paying-millions-it-671478 … Source 2: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/26/more-people-were-arrested-last-year-over-pot-than-for-murder-rape-aggravated-assault-and-robbery-combined/?utm_term=.750a17d6fe1f … Source 3: https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-06-22/pot-dealing-arrests-back-to-pre-legalization-levels-in-dc … Source 4: http://www.thedailychronic.net/2017/78242/drug-arrests-marijuana-arrests-last-year-fbi-reports/ … Source 5: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/opinion/smoking-marijuana-while-black.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=CD340284CE2E166670ADF0D0C510C179&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion … Source 6: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/11/marijuana-arrests-nearly-triple-dc-after-legalizat/ … And a few hundred more.
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Sources 1, 2 and 4 are all referring to national arrest levels, not levels in states that legalized specifically. 3 is about arrests for the sale of pot in DC which remains illegal there. 6 says it tripled from previous year in DC but doesn’t say it’s higher than before 2014 law
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Got paywalled on 5. Again, I think we all agree these numbers are bad, but they don’t suggest marijuana arrests go up for total PoC population in places where it’s legal.
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They have, undoubtedly gone up for Black & Brown children/teens in Colorado. They have gone up for several years straight in DC. After New York decriminalized it, arrests went up nearly 10% 2 years ago, then down 1% last year.
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