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  • The NYPD's Secret Crusade Against Marijuana Furthers a Racist Agenda

    05/07/2008 5:01:28 PM PDT · by neverdem · 24 replies · 129+ views
    The Village Voice ^ | May 6th, 2008 | Nat Hentoff
    I have been intermittently reporting on the NYPD for half a century—sometimes admiringly, as when I spent several weeks with a homicide squad on the Lower East Side, learning how (in contrast to the CIA's current methods) confessions that will hold up in court can be obtained by detectives without laying a hand on the suspect. And I've also written critically about the police, as well as various commissioners. But I have never seen such systematic dishonesty and contempt for the law as those documented in the 102-page report, "Marijuana Arrest Crusade: Racial Bias and Police Policy in New York...