Pubdate: Sun, 03 Apr 2016
Source: Dallas Morning News (TX)
Copyright: 2016 The Dallas Morning News, Inc.
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Author: William Dominguez

CITY COUNCIL MISSED BOAT

If the Dallas City Council is unhappy with the recent crime spike, 
perhaps voting for the cite-and-release marijuana policy that failed 
last week could help keep officers on the streets working on 
eliminating violent crime.

In 2014, 700,000 Americans were arrested for marijuana law violations 
and 620,000 of those violations were possession. Why are we putting 
resources to arrest individuals for a crime that is nonviolent?

Dallas City Council had its chance to be proactive toward reducing 
violent crime by reducing the penalties for a nonviolent one. Now the 
council members who voted "nay" on the cite-and-release policy would 
rather blame Dallas Police Chief David Brown for an issue they could 
have helped solve.

William Dominguez,

Dallas/Lakewood
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