Tag: Jahlookova
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Diana Ayala Hosts Community Forum on the Opioid Crisis, Tonight
Tonight, at 5:00 PM, Council Member Ayala is hosting a community conversation on the opioid epidemic. Join her, city officials, community leaders, and East Harlem neighbors in a wide-ranging (in-person) discussion about what she plans to do about the open air drug dealing and drug using that has inundated our community. Please come out and…
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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…
