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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 0Comments

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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 0Comments

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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 0Comments

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Oct 2007

Justice

Chapter 1: The Punishing Price of NYC's Bail System

Many people in New York City’s jails today are behind bars only because they cannot afford the very low bail set in their minor criminal cases. This raises concerns about…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Oct 2007

Justice

The Business of Bail: The City's Bail Agents Sing the Blues

When a judge opts not to release a defendant and sets bail that’s higher than he can pay in cash, a commercial bail bond agent decides, in effect, whether the…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Oct 2007

Justice

Overdue Finds: The NYPD's Warrants Section

There are somewhere between 160,000 and 1.5 million open warrants in the five boroughs. They represent the caseload of the NYPD’s Warrants Section.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Oct 2007

Justice

Clang for a Buck: The Curious Case of Dollar Bails

It’s rare, but it happens: A person gets arrested on multiple charges, has $1 bail set on one, clears the other counts up, but remains in jail for lack of…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Oct 2007

Justice