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Related: About this forumTYT: Marijuana Legalized In Colorado Is To Blame For NYC Murders, Obviously.
At a news conference Monday, New York Police Department commissioner Bill Bratton blamed a slight uptick in violence in the city (45 homicides at this point last year, versus 54 this year) on marijuana.
'The seemingly innocent drug thats been legalized around the country. In this city, people are killing each other over marijuana more so than anything that we had to deal with [in the] 80s and 90s with heroin and cocaine . . . In some instances, its a causal factor. But its an influence in almost everything that we do here.' *
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/03/03/nypd-commissioner-blames-marijuana-for-increase-in-shootings/
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TYT: Marijuana Legalized In Colorado Is To Blame For NYC Murders, Obviously. (Original Post)
WhoIsNumberNone
Mar 2015
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RKP5637
(67,030 posts)1. More Idiocracy by TPTB! n/t
freebrew
(1,917 posts)2. I keep wondering...
how these stupid morons keep getting either put into or elected into some office of power over others.
It's been the corporate mindset for a long time, but fer fuck's sake, the head of the NYPD?
This guy needs to go, yesterday.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)3. I wouldn't ask that guy to judge a pie eating contest.