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New York City’s Biggest Marijuana Problem Is the Police
For decades, NYPD have been busting people for small amounts of weed not because of any state law, but because they were rewarded every time they made an arrest.
Do We Have a Right to Know Why We're Being Searched by Police?
New York City is mulling a "right to know" law after a summer defined by police brutality across America.
Why Does a Campus Police Department Have Jurisdiction Over 65,000 Chicago Residents?
The University of Chicago Police Department, one of the largest private security forces in America, is under fire for alleged racial profiling. And its officers are even more protected from accountability than normal cops.
New York City Is Finally Softening Its Stance on Pot
After decades of arresting people for having weed on the streets of New York, the NYPD is ready to change its tune. But don't get TOO excited—we're a long way from legal marijuana.
NYPD to Stop Making Arrests for Simple Possession of Marijuana
Starting this month, NYPD cops will issue summons tickets instead of making ruinous low-level pot arrests.
Is the NYPD Actually Changing Its Weed Policy?
The mayor's office is hinting at big changes in how NYC cops will deal with ganja. Are we buying it?
Is New York’s Latest Graffiti Crackdown Backfiring?
Crime rates are low and the new mayor is an outspoken progressive, so why is the NYPD going after graffiti artists like it's 1994?
How Illegal Cigarettes Get Smuggled and Sold in New York City
I spent a day with a guy who traffics "loosies" in Staten Island.
Omnipresence Is the Newest NYPD Tactic You’ve Never Heard Of
The cops in New York City are stationing officers and floodlights in high-crime housing projects.
Exclusive Video: Did the NYPD Really Need to Pepper-Spray a Guy Waiting for the Train?
The latest casualty of New York City's controversial policing scheme, which critics say targets people of color for victimless crimes, was a young man waiting for the subway in Brooklyn.
The NYPD's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
A series of horrific videos showing flagrant brutality by cops has NYC's progressive mayor and his controversial police commissioner on the defensive.
Detroit's New Policing Strategy Is Stop-And-Frisk on a Massive Scale
Since 2003, Detroit's police department had been under the federal oversight of the US Department of Justice, and shaking its bad rap had been difficult.