[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Draft ordinance in Urbana first step to decriminalization

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Lets see some discussion of the merits of the law...

How much should penalty be?  (In my way of looking at it, $0.001 for the 
City is too much.  I see no win-win there.)

Also the increased possibility of being stopped at all.
(Most traffic stops are Unnecessary Police Harassment in my view, Police 
should not intervene unless there is
Obvious Flagrant impairment or reckless behaviour.)

How much authority does the city have in decriminalization?

Is there any reason that there should be any penalty at all for 
consumption of d9-THC containing products?
.... while driving an automobile?

Brian Dolinar wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:48 PM, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag 
> <mailto:ewj at pigs.ag>> wrote:
>
>     Do you think that making it a ticketable offense will decrease or
>     increase the rate of Police Intervention?
>
>     It seems to me that it might increase the rate of intervention
>     since if it becomes a ticketable offense and hence a
>     new source of easily captured revenue for the never satisfied maw
>     of the City.  They will be able to write
>     a ticket which is more easily processed than the criminal offense
>     of common use that is presently oft ignored,
>     hence they may intervene more often.
>
>
> BD:Then its a win-win. City generates money and fewer people go to jail.
>
>
>
>     Why is it important that policy be standardized rather than left
>     to the officer who might decide to show mercy?
>
>
> BD: cops are more likely to show mercy to you, Wayne, a white male. 
> Racial profiling has been well documented to exist in Urbana.
> Who goes to jail and who gets a ticket, if left up to officer 
> discretion, may reproduce similar racial biases.
>
>
>
>     Brian Dolinar wrote:
>>     Tonight 7pm at Urbana City Council
>>     there will be consideration of a draft ordinance
>>     to make marijuana possession a ticketable offense, keeping people
>>     out of jail.
>>     It is important that this policy be standardized and not left up
>>     to officer discretion.
>>
>>     Last year, 870,000 people were arrested on marijuana charges in
>>     the US.
>>
>>     BD
>>     -- 
>>     Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
>>     303 W. Locust St.
>>     Urbana, IL 61801
>>     briandolinar at gmail.com <mailto:briandolinar at gmail.com>
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> Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
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