At a news conference Monday, New York Police Department commissioner Bill Bratton blamed a slight uptick in violence in the city (45 homicides at this point last year, versus 54 this year) on marijuana.
“The seemingly innocent drug that’s been legalized around the country. In this city, people are killing each other over marijuana more so than anything that we had to deal with [in the] 80s and 90s with heroin and cocaine . . . In some instances, it’s a causal factor. But it’s an influence in almost everything that we do here.”
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9 comments:
I seriously doubt that violent crimes are being committed over something that you can grow in any apartment.
Bratton and De Blasio have got to go!
This is just more proof of the gutter politics people will play when they have an agenda.
It's a totally fabricated premise.
What do you expect from a registered Socialist masquerading as a Democrat?
I thought America already learned the lesson of "the ends justify the means" from the liar Obama.
Whatta putz!
Reefer doesn't kill people, people kill people
Stop and frisk got shut down by the liberal mayor. Typical LIBERAL blame anything or anyone for your failure.
sure and jesus rides with santa claus on christmas
I watched the interview.
He lost ALL credibility when he said "deaths from marijuana overdoses....".
In the HISTORY OF MANKIND, not ONE person has EVER overdosed on marijuana. Not one.
A person in his position should tell the truth. Unfortunately, he doesn't appear to know the truth.
So he makes things up to further his agenda.
And he demands our "respect".
What is this guy, a Nixon era holdover?
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