Speaker 1: Here's another think peace for you from the Associated Press
Speaker 1: out of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday proposed
Speaker 1: cutting the penalty for public possession of a small amount
Speaker 1: of marijuana. Andrew Cuomo proposed cutting the penalty for public
Speaker 1: possession of a small amount of marijuana, which is a
Speaker 1: change in state law that would diffuse some criticism of
Speaker 1: the New York Police Department stop and frisk policy in
Speaker 1: minority communities. With three weeks remaining in the legislative session,
Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo said that his bill to reduce the criminal
Speaker 1: misdemeanor to a violation with a fine up to hundred
Speaker 1: dollars would save thousands of New Yorkers, disproportionately black and
Speaker 1: Hispanic youths, from unnecessary arrests and criminal charges. Governor Cuomo said,
Speaker 1: there's a blatant inconsistency. If you possess marijuana privately, it's
Speaker 1: a violation. If you show it in public, it's a crime.
Speaker 1: It's incongrus it's inconsistent the way it's been enforced. There
Speaker 1: have been additional complications in relation to the stop and
Speaker 1: frisk policy, where there's claims at young people could have
Speaker 1: a small amount of marijuana in their pocket. They're stopped there, frisked.
Speaker 1: The cops says, turn out your pockets. The marijuana is
Speaker 1: now in public view, and it just went from a
Speaker 1: violation to a crime, and that's not good. New York
Speaker 1: City prosecutors and the Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, whose office
Speaker 1: has handled almost fifty thousands such cases last year, endorsed
Speaker 1: Cuomo's plan, as did Mayor Duomberg. Mayor Duomberg said the
Speaker 1: bill largely mirrors the city police directive issued last year
Speaker 1: for officers to issue violations, not misdemeanors, for small amounts
Speaker 1: of marijuana to come into open view during a search.
Speaker 1: Now you heard about this, I'm sure in the context
Speaker 1: here's Duomberg wants to stop you from being able to
Speaker 1: bind thing over sixteen ounces if it's a coke or
Speaker 1: a PEPSI seven up or whatever. But he wants to
Speaker 1: relax the penalties on small amounts of marijuana. But that's
Speaker 1: not the point here. There's an in reading you the
Speaker 1: details here, I wonder how many of you caught something
Speaker 1: this This law disproportionately effects blacks and Hispanic youths. And
Speaker 1: the Police commissioner said that his office handles fifty thousand
Speaker 1: such criminal cases last year, and it's just it's not
Speaker 1: worth it. It's not that big of violace that fifty
Speaker 1: thou we've Let's let's take this from just a misdemeanor,
Speaker 1: get really just called a violation and move on. Fine,
Speaker 1: what did moynihan say defining deviancy down it's too much
Speaker 1: trouble to enforce this. Well, let's just say it's not
Speaker 1: a crime anymore and be done with it. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: Now you know me, I care about the culture. I
Speaker 1: care about the roots of our society. And my question
Speaker 1: does does Governor Cuomo? Does Mayor Doomberg? I mean even
Speaker 1: the police commissioner? Do they do they ask themselves why
Speaker 1: this is an issue that disproportionately affects black and Hispanic youtes.
Speaker 1: In other words, are they not interested in why black
Speaker 1: and Hispanic youths are the primary users here and do
Speaker 1: they not care that that might be a problem or
Speaker 1: are they saying, you know what, it's so many cases
Speaker 1: and it's so much trouble and it's not really worth
Speaker 1: it being a crime and misdemeanor. We just want to
Speaker 1: call it the violence violation. Okay, So let's just change
Speaker 1: the law so that these kids are not the targets anymore.
Speaker 1: Instead of trying to figure out why this is happening,
Speaker 1: let's just change the law and it's no longer a
Speaker 1: big deal. Um, I don't know it. It it bothers me.
Speaker 1: I care about the culture and the things that people
Speaker 1: do that might be impediments to their future. That of
Speaker 1: caught early and stopped could be helpful, But that's just me.
Speaker 1: So in New York, from the governor on down, it's
Speaker 1: just it's just too big a hassle. And you know,
Speaker 1: there's nothing in it to be targeting those two groups politically,
Speaker 1: there's really nothing to gain. But targeting those two is
Speaker 1: there sturdily. I mean, there's really nothing to be gained.
Speaker 1: I mean, nobody wins when people sees black utes and
Speaker 1: Hispanic you. It's being reprimanded or or held to account
Speaker 1: for small amounts of marijuanted. Nothing to be gained politically,
Speaker 1: but it so let's just make it like it's not happening.
Speaker 1: What surprised you in the story, snard Lee can't believe
Speaker 1: they're allowed to frisk black and Hispanic you. It's in
Speaker 1: New York like that, Well, it is called the stop
Speaker 1: and frisk policy where the officer says, well, no, but
Speaker 1: they can do it to anybody. But the officer turn
Speaker 1: out your pockets and marijuana is now in public view.
Speaker 1: And it just went from a violation to a crime.
Speaker 1: And without the stopping frisk, that had never found it,
Speaker 1: so it wouldn't have been a crime. It would it
Speaker 1: would have stated violation, but nobody would have known about it.
Speaker 1: So basically, what this thing is, we don't want to know.
Speaker 1: We just we don't want to know. It's called wash
Speaker 1: our hands. We don't want to know. And they wonder, oh,
Speaker 1: never mind. By the way, we have learned, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: that the Reverend Sharpton, MSNBC anchorman and journalists is going
Speaker 1: to lead a silent march on Father's Day to bring
Speaker 1: attention to New York stopping frisk policies. But I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have to. They're they're gonna get a're
Speaker 1: gonna well, no, take it back. He is gonna have
Speaker 1: to getting rid of that. They're changing a law based
Speaker 1: on what they find with stopping frisk. I don't know
Speaker 1: Sharpton on the MSNBC payroll when he is doing the
Speaker 1: silent march. I well, I don't know, Snordle. I mean,
Speaker 1: if he's on the payroll, he gets paid per year.
Speaker 1: I paid for what he does on MSNBC. Probably they
Speaker 1: wouldn't say at MSNBC they're paying him to do that. No,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he's not being paid for that, and I
Speaker 1: would I wouldn't think. Uh. The real question is would
Speaker 1: would they let Tom Brokaw do it or would they
Speaker 1: let Brian Williams do it at at NBC. That's the question.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We're all trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: a silent march is here MSNBC anchorman and journalists. The
Speaker 1: Reverend L. Sharpton leading a silent march on Father's Day
Speaker 1: against the stop and frisk policy in New York City.
Speaker 1: And if you have a protest, even had a silent
Speaker 1: march and nobody makes any noise, does the protest occur?
Speaker 1: We might need Yogi Bearra to figure this out for us.
Speaker 1: The reverence, sure, I've never heard of a silent march.
Speaker 1: Is that where you make no noise when you march
Speaker 1: or walk? Is that where you don't say anything? Is
Speaker 1: I mean no megaphone