V. Saxena January 26, 2016
NYC’s city council appears poised to institute a set of bills that would ostensibly decriminalize minor offenses such as excessive noise, marijuana possession, public intoxication and public urination, reported The Daily Caller:If passed, the new laws would encourage police not to arrest sidewalk tinklers and violators of the other laws. Instead, cops would usually give out civil summonses. Recipients would then be ordered to appear in a court managed by New York City’s Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings.“We know that the system has been really rigged against communities of color in particular,” she commented to The New York Times. “So the question has always been, what can we do in this job to minimize unnecessary interaction with the criminal justice system, so that these young people can really fulfill their potential?”
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