One Million Police Hours was co-authored by Harry Levine, Loren Siegel, and gabriel sayegh, and was published in March 2013 by the Drug Policy Alliance and the Marijuana Research Project. Original press release, from the Drug Policy Alliance.
In One Million Police Hours, we documented the astonishing number of hours the New York Police Department spent arresting and processing hundreds of thousands of people — mostly young Black and Latino men — for low-level misdemeanor marijuana possession arrests during Mayor Bloomberg’s tenure. We found that NYPD used approximately 1,000,000 hours of police officer time to make 440,000 marijuana possession arrests over 11 years.
The report was covered widely in the press, including in Gothamist, HuffPost, Democracy Now!, and the Buffalo News.
