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Even if all police become robots, the numbers won't change. The problem with this country is the blame game and not self realization. Successful people don't play the blame game.
I think a lot of people are confused by the legalization laws.
It’s illegal to smoke it in public, period...
Ahhh...got it. Kind of like drinking alcohol. You can't walk around drinking an open beer can but you can drink it in a bar, club, private party, indoors, etc. I once unknowingly carried a cup of beer a few blocks down when I was leaving an outdoor party. A cop stopped me and just told me to cover it up. I'm glad I didn't get arrested!
That said, I saw plenty of white dudes smoking pot around Washington Sq. Park, pre-covid. Don't know how many of them ended up actually getting arrested for it.
I think a lot of people are confused by the legalization laws.
It’s illegal to smoke it in public, period...
That's why I never understand how people plan to solve this "problem." It's never going to be legal for sixteen-year-olds to stand around and pass the dutchie on city sidewalks. So what laws will result in statistics that differ from these?
Here is a novel idea: Don't do the crime and you won't have to serve the time. As others here already said if you're dumb enough to do drugs in public then you deserve no pity.
Also ASIANS are also people of color yet you don't see our numbers involved in these arrest stats. Why is that? Oh, wait another uncomfortable truth that the Black and Brown lobby can't answer.
I am not saying no Asians smoke weed - just that those who do aren't dumb enough to do it w/o a neon sign blazing above their head saying arrest me.
funny......in washington sq park, bryant park, williamsburg and in flatiron (daily) i see tons of young white college aged kids smoking weed (and other things) with officers walking around ignoring them, asian kids around canal and in flushing jumping turnstyles (daily), old asian ladies stealing items by the bagloads in dollar stores in pomonok and auburndale queens (daily) with officers and store security around ignoring them (even when i point it out), and never arresting them, covid, pre covid and for decades....... maybe that "neon sign" you're referring to might be something like what this guy wore https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...robberies.html
Ahhh...got it. Kind of like drinking alcohol. You can't walk around drinking an open beer can but you can drink it in a bar, club, private party, indoors, etc. I once unknowingly carried a cup of beer a few blocks down when I was leaving an outdoor party. A cop stopped me and just told me to cover it up. I'm glad I didn't get arrested!
That said, I saw plenty of white dudes smoking pot around Washington Sq. Park, pre-covid. Don't know how many of them ended up actually getting arrested for it.
none of them do, none. been seeing this for decades. reminds me of when i was in the east village a few years ago where two officers were patrolling. eight white college aged kids jumped the turnstyle. cops completely ignored them. one darker latin guy did it not too long after and was arrested almost instantly. regular day in nyc
Here is a novel idea: Don't do the crime and you won't have to serve the time. As others here already said if you're dumb enough to do drugs in public then you deserve no pity.
Also ASIANS are also people of color yet you don't see our numbers involved in these arrest stats. Why is that? Oh, wait another uncomfortable truth that the Black and Brown lobby can't answer.
I am not saying no Asians smoke weed - just that those who do aren't dumb enough to do it w/o a neon sign blazing above their head saying arrest me.
So exactly what color are you? And if you do have color, how come NOBODY ever refers to your color? All I hear is black, brown and white to color code EVERYONE ELSE. But our super duper large Chinese and Korean communities don't get color coded.
You don't have to really answer these questions. We all know the answer. It's called left wing wack job woke liberalism.
And for you other "poc" out there, in my whitey school all throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s (both private and public), we were lectured on how referring to people as "colored" folks was racist. So wtf is it? Asking for a friend.
I'm old enough now to realize ya'll make this chyt up as you go along.
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