Pot arrests from squads pushed as reform in Chicago Is the Chicago marijuana decrim proposal dead? News in the Chicago Sun-Times today makes me think it's on life support, at best.
As linked almost immediately by the U.S. Marijuana Party blog, the Sun-Times reports today on a pilot program in one Chicago police district which will allow officers to do paperwork for marijuana arrests from their squad cars. This is supposed to save the time needed to take arrestees down to the station, but one annonymous cop isn't impressed by the alleged efficiency of the plan:
One Shakespeare District cop, meanwhile, griped that he thinks the pilot program might actually waste more time than processing arrests in the police station. Only one officer can type the information into the computer, while the officer's partner waits.
When this plan bombs (it's not saving court time, it's not going to raise conviction rates, and it's not generating revenue for the city) maybe the city will think about decrim again, but I don't expect to see it mentioned again for a while.
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