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US NY: OPED: To Help the NYPD, End the Rockefeller Drug Laws
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n577/a04.html
Newshawk: Sledhead
Pubdate: Sun, 30 Apr 2000
Source: New York Daily News (NY)
Copyright: 2000 Daily News, L.P.
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Author: Robert Gangi, Executive Director, Correctional Association of New
York.
TO HELP THE NYPD, END THE ROCKEFELLER DRUG LAWS
The New York Police Department now seems likely to be overseen by a federal
monitor because of charges of police brutality. But police brutality is only
the most dramatic and visible piece of a larger, more insidious problem.
Police sent into low-income, inner-city communities on drug sweeps have
become agents of a crimefighting approach that does far more damage to those
communities than most people realize.
Particular statutes on the books in New York, primarily the Rockefeller drug
laws, foster pernicious kinds of police tactics. These laws mandate prison
sentences for even low-level drug offenses and base the criterion for guilt
on the amount of drugs one possesses, rather than one's role in a drug
transaction.
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