{"id":10838,"date":"2016-08-23T10:28:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T10:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=10838"},"modified":"2016-09-21T08:34:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T08:34:12","slug":"nypd-commissioner-links-shootings-to-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2016\/08\/nypd-commissioner-links-shootings-to-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD COMMISSIONER LINKS SHOOTINGS TO MARIJUANA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shootings in New York City have gone up nearly 20 percent in the past year, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton announced on March 3, saying that marijuana legalization and the loosening of restrictions across the United States are partly to blame.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bratton referred to marijuana as \u201cthe seemingly innocent drug that\u2019s been legalized around the country,\u201d and says that yes, it\u2019s connected to a rise in shootings. He\u2019s not off the mark. In Colorado, Pueblo County Sheriff Kirk Taylor in Colorado noticed an uptick in crimes, and <\/span><\/span><\/span>he\u2019s now tracking the link between crimes and marijuana<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In New York City, marijuana is not legalized, but it has been decriminalized to some degree and the NYPD has stopped arresting people with small amounts of marijuana on their person.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is ironic that in a city which is a transfer point for huge amounts of drugs . . . heroin, cocaine, hallucinogens, that one drug [that] is actually the causal factor in so much of our shootings and murder is marijuana,\u201d Bratton said. \u201cWe just see marijuana everywhere when we make these arrests, and get the guns off the street.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Watch WABC\u2019s report, along with Bratton\u2019s remarks,<\/span><\/span><\/span> in the video.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Murders revolving around marijuana occur in Washington and Colorado<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. A week ago in Steamboat Springs, a man with an indoor marijuana grow was robbed and murdered<\/span><\/span><\/span>. Two have been charged. The black markets are also alive and well in both Washington and <\/span><\/span><\/span>Colorado, as a New York Times article explains<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: <\/span><\/span><\/span>http:\/\/www.poppot.org\/2015\/03\/09<\/span><\/span><\/a> 9th March 2015<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shootings in New York City have gone up nearly 20 percent in the past year, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton announced on March 3, saying that marijuana legalization and the loosening of restrictions across the United States are partly to blame. Bratton referred to marijuana as \u201cthe seemingly innocent drug that\u2019s been legalized around the country,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,32,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-crime-violence-prison","category-effects-of-drugs","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}