Tag: Drug Arrests

Vice has a fascinating look at how drug arrests have plummeted in the decade from 2009 to 2019: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy8k97/how-new-york-quietly-ended-its-street-drug-war Just this visualization (below), showing the massive drop in the number of NYC drug arrests in 2009 to 2019 (red line) and the number of drug convictions from 2009 to 2019 (white line) is stunning: The…