Seattle: 80% of Tickets for Public Cannabis Consumption Given by One Officer, Officer Put on Leave

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Seattle: 80% of Tickets for Public Cannabis Consumption Given by One Officer, Officer Put on Leave

A new report released by the Seattle Police Department has found that of the 83 tickets given out for public consumption of cannabis this year in Seattle, 80% were distributed by one officer. That officer has since been put on administrative leave and is being reassigned.

In Washington state the possession, use and state licensed distribution of cannabis is legal. However, public consumption of cannabis isn’t legal, though in Seattle, it’s a simple $27 ticket.

As of early July there’ve been 83 of these tickets handed out in Seattle, with a recent analysis finding that those tickets were given disproportionately to minorities and the homeless. According to the Seattle Police Department, 66 of the 83 tickets were given by one officer, who calls the voter-enacted legalization of cannabis in the state “silly”.

The officer has been reported to the Office of Professional Accounting and put on leave while an investigation takes places.

– TheJointBlog


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7 Comments

  • jerf
    July 31, 2014

    wow. way to go officer dumbass.

  • Dale Berry
    July 31, 2014

    Where is your source?

  • Jon
    July 31, 2014

    He one busy boy lol

  • Robert
    July 31, 2014

    that same officer probably let’s off drunk drivers because alcohol is “legal”

    they wonder why ONE ruins them all.

  • scott
    August 2, 2014

    talk about an anti-weed fire him discrimination he probably profiles people as well.

  • Richard Benson
    September 9, 2014

    LOL what a excuse for leave !! and what was report all about ??

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