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This just makes them 'lowest priority', and only to denver police and courts. Still very much a crime, still prosecuted, just way less. Yay selective local enf
by justtopost 8y ago
This just makes them 'lowest priority', and only to denver police and courts. Still very much a crime, still prosecuted, just way less.
Yay selective local enforcement! What a huge leap forward! /s
While I am happy any effort and attention is here, it doesn't do anything even for people who get busted. The colorado courts are still happy to assume any more than one is intent to sell, and weigh the box the came in to charge you. I welcome a step forward, but this is closer to a twitch.
- jschwartzi 8y agoThis was a first step in Washington with marijuana. Seattle voted to make prosecution "lowest priority," and it was a series of steps from that to complete legalization.
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 8y agoIt seems like these laws often slowly follow what is already taking place unofficially. It makes sense because most police really don’t want to be spending time on pointless arrests.
- notinmycity 8y ago>> most police really don’t want to be spending time on pointless arrests. Most police are happy to confiscate and personally use or make use of contraband as an alternative currency. When arrests are incentivised as paths to promotion, most police seem to be fine with them, and when they are disincentivised to skew statistics and optics they seem fine with that as well.
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 8y agoDo you have evidence of this other than from the movie Training Day? Saying "most" is a huge generalization. I would agree it probably happens, but "most"?