We found these statistics for California between 1990 and 2008. They were released by the Criminal Justice Statistics Center & the Demographic Research Unit. Check out the graph below…
This is what the ‘Drug War’ has done to our Law Enforcement’s sense of what it is important to be focusing on. Do you see what happened [...]
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This is what it looked like in California when they didn’t make Cannabis offenses their lowest priority..
Mr. Kimura, what about “Lowest Priority” don’t you understand?
The Lowest Law Enforcement Priority of Cannabis Ordinance is a document of nearly 2,000 words that sets new priorities for policy concerning Cannabis in the County of Hawaii. The ordinance prescribes for all County officials and personnel a new direction for Hawai’i County and a new set of priorities that do not involve search, [...]
2.3 Million People incarcerated in the USA- This week Congress urged Judges to ‘rethink’ mandatory minimum sentences…
“The November 9 Supreme Court arguments on whether it is cruel and unusual to impose life in prison without parole on violent juveniles who have not killed anybody understandably got prominent media coverage,” a National Journal column reports.“But a far more important imprisonment story gets less attention because it’s a running sore that rarely [...]
