The policy innovations of city government and nonprofit fixture Herb Sturz over half a century form the basis for a book that’s both a biography and modern history.
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.
The ‘war on drugs’ continues as ever, though you might not hear much about it anymore. The new issue of CLI looks at its advances and setbacks — and who’s…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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