A little pot is trouble in NYC: 50k busts a year

[Lloyd Danforth]

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"Critics say the deluge has been driven in part by the New York Police Department's strategy of stopping people and frisking those whom police say meet crime suspects' descriptions. More than a half a million people, mostly black and Hispanic men, were stopped last year - unfair targets, critics say. About 10 percent of stops result in arrests."