More NYC racial profiling alleged.

“From 2003 through 2011, 87.0 percent of people arrested and charged under 221.10 for possessing marijuana ‘burning or open to public view’ in New York City were either black or Latino,” the complaint states. “Conversely, only 10.2 percent were white. The disparity is even more acute in the Bronx, where the DCJS records show that 95.4 percent of all persons arrested and charged under 221.10 were either black or Latino. Meanwhile, studies show that between 2002 and 2009, among persons between the ages of 18 and 25, a greater percentage of whites used marijuana than either blacks or Latinos.”
As in the Floyd case, all of the plaintiffs are black and Latino men who claim police racially profiled them because of pressure to meet quotas.
“As a result of this quota system, and the perverse incentives it imposes, some NYPD officers have developed a policy, practice and custom of lying on criminal complaints - including plaintiffs’ - so as to ‘justify’ charging a misdemeanor rather than a violation,” the complaint states.

One stupid side effect of the quota system is that these cases often wind up getting dismissed, because the cops don’t have a quota for convictions, just for arrests.

So it’s an enormous, racist waste of money.