Summary
Controlling information is power, and they don't want to let it go-it is as fundamental as that" Also fundamental is Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis's requirement for combating official lawlessness in a free society: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant" Will the sunlight of public exposure finally begin to disinfect the NYPD, which under this rancid policy-promulgated by several New York mayors and police commissioners-has been contemptuously violating the letter and the intent of the Marijuana Reform Act for 10 straight years? "New York City's marijuana possession arrests," write Levine and Peterson Small, "were not of people arrested for more serious crimes who were then found to be possessing marijuana.
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Blunt Justice
I have been intermittently reporting on the NYPD for half a century-sometimes admiringly, as when I spent several weeks with a homicide squad on the Lower East Side, learning how (in contrast to the CIA's current methods) confessions that will hold up in court can be obtained by detectives without l...
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