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We begin with 30 years of tough on policies and laws starting to unrival. Sea change movement for criminal justice and race. Today speaking to the american bar association, attorney general eric holder announced in lowlevel nonviolent drug cases federal prosecutors will be instructed to leave out the amount of an illegal substance in their criminal complaint in order to avoid triggering federal mandatory minimums. A move that could be the start of a truly Seismic Shift in federal drug policy. In new york, a landmark decision on the stop and frisk practice of the nypd. This morning the Federal District judge found nypd stop and Frisk Program violates the Constitutional Rights of people of color in new york. Writing that the nypd carries out more stops where there are more black and hispanic resident s when other relevant variables are held. The racial composition of a precinct or stop rate predicts above and beyond the crime rate. The city, through the nypd, has a policy of incorrect ra
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