Sean Gardiner, Author at City Limits

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Excerpt from the latest issue of City Limits Investigates: Marijuana has gotten cheaper in New York in the past decade with an estimated 416,000 city residents smoking it.

BySean Gardiner 18 minRead time

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Jul 2009

Justice

Soldiers, Prisoners, Casualties—A Drug War's Characters

Just because the drug trade and the law enforcement crusade against it aren’t as obvious as they were in the past doesn’t mean drugs and the war against them have…

BySean Gardiner 6 minRead time

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Jul 2009

Justice

Casualty of War: One Addict's Saga of Punishment

By his own count, during his years as an addict Casimiro Steven Torres piled up 67 arrests for a variety of petty and not-so-petty crimes.

BySean Gardiner 4 minRead time

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Jul 2009

Justice

After Rockefeller Reform, Drug Courts Face Big Test

While drug reformers see drug courts as preferable to prison, the courts do have critics. It remains to be seen if the drug courts’ capacity and criteria can handle what…

BySean Gardiner 4 minRead time

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Jul 2009

Justice

Prosecutors See Risks in Rockefeller Reforms

In the past, prosecutors alone got to choose which defendants would be eligible to participate in drug court. Now judges have that power in a wide swath of cases.

BySean Gardiner 5 minRead time

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Jul 2009

Justice

The Meth Myth: A Drug that's Always on its Way

Like riding mowers or line dancing, meth—whether called “ice,” “tina,” “crank” or any of its dozen other names—has never really caught on in New York City.

BySean Gardiner 6 minRead time

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Jul 2009

Justice

In the Drug War, a Stalemate?

City Limits estimates that the yearly cost to government for investigation, contraband seizures, arrests, judicial processing, incarceration, parole hearings and probation services for all those arrested in drug cases in…

BySean Gardiner 7 minRead time

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Jul 2009

Government Justice

Today's Drug War: Marijuana and Mass Arrests

Despite the extraordinarily low crime levels and the near total absence of drugs from the city’s public discourse these days, nearly a quarter of a million people in New York…

BySean Gardiner 18 minRead time

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Jul 2009

Government Justice

A Cop’s Death Accelerates the City’s War on Crack

On Feb. 26, 1988, members of a drug gang murdered a 22-year-old rookie police of?cer named Edward Byrne, who was sitting guard in a patrol car outside the home of…

BySean Gardiner 31 minRead time

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Jul 2009

Justice

Cocaine: A Club Drug Becomes Enemy No. 1

Sometime in 1975, Colombian drug dealers, who were already well established in the world’s marijuana market with their high-grade Colombian Gold, wrested control of the cocaine importation business from Cuban…

BySean Gardiner 27 minRead time

Sean Gardiner

Hooked: Four decades of drug war in New York City: Marijuana

Soldiers, Prisoners, Casualties—A Drug War's Characters

Casualty of War: One Addict's Saga of Punishment

After Rockefeller Reform, Drug Courts Face Big Test

Prosecutors See Risks in Rockefeller Reforms

The Meth Myth: A Drug that's Always on its Way

In the Drug War, a Stalemate?

Today's Drug War: Marijuana and Mass Arrests

A Cop’s Death Accelerates the City’s War on Crack

Cocaine: A Club Drug Becomes Enemy No. 1

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