1 pot arrest per minute in 2013, FBI reports [View all]
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
The FBI released its Uniform Crime Report for 2013 today, and finds that about one marijuana possession arrest occurred per minute last year, for a total of 609,423 arrests in 2013.
America spends an estimated $3.6 billion per year on these arrests, none of which lower the availability or popularity of pot, the American Civil Liberties Union finds.
Police spent more time and resources arresting people for drugs than they did arresting rapists, murderers, pedophiles, or any other offense in the UCR. Of those drug arrests, marijuana possession arrests comprised the majority. Forty-one percent of all drug arrests in 2013 were for marijuana possession, a substance the President says is less harmful than alcohol.
... These arrests are also racially biased, the American Civil Liberties Union has found. Marijuana use is roughly equal among African-Americans and whites, yet African-Americans are 3.73 times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession.
Read more: http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2014/11/10/what-a-waste-1-pot-arrest-per-minute-in-2013-fbi-reports/
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