{"id":8865,"date":"2013-06-10T15:02:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T15:02:02","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8865","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo News: Racial disparities found in marijuana charges in NYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20130607\/CITYANDREGION\/130609356\/1010\">Racial disparities found in marijuana charges [in NYS]<\/a> by Lou Michel:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you are black and stopped by police in Niagara County, you are 7.5 times more likely to be arrested for misdemeanor marijuana possession than if you are white.<\/p>\n<p>If you are black and in Erie County, the likelihood of being charged is 5.6 times greater than if you are white. <\/p>\n<p>In both counties, that represents a substantial \u201cracial disparity\u201d in how the law is applied, according to a New York Civil Liberties Union report released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The main target of the report is the New York City Police Department\u2019s controversial \u201cstop and frisk\u201d policy, which is being challenged in U.S. District Court for alleged unconstitutional stops and racial profiling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8865\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}