1. Ending the New Jim Crow:
Mapping the Future of
Drug Policy in NYC
16 November 2013
Co-sponsors: BOOM! Health, Bronx Defenders,
Center for Community Alternatives, Center for
Constitutional Rights, Community Health
Services of Staten Island, Family Services of
New York, Inc., Harm Reduction Coalition,
Justice Committee, Lower East Harm
Reduction Center, Malcolm X Grassroots
Movement, New York Civil Liberties Union,
New York Communities for Change, New York
Harm Reduction Educators, Picture the
Homeless, Safe Horizon/Streetwork Project,
Washington Heights Corner Project
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2. Ending the New Jim Crow:
Mapping the Future of Drug Policy in NYC
• 40 Years
• $1 Trillion
• 45 million arrests
Ending the New Jim Crow: Mapping the Future of Drug Policy in NYC
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3. Ending the New Jim Crow:
Mapping the Future of Drug Policy in NYC
Over the last 40 years, the official drug policy of the
both the U.S. and NYC has been the war on drugs.
This war has failed to improve health and safety in our
communities, and has led to criminalizing health
issues, mass incarceration, rising overdose deaths,
disease transmission, lack of access to healthcare and
education, fiscal waste, violations of civil rights and civil
liberties, the school-to-prison pipeline, and appalling
racial disparities.
The war on drugs is the New Jim Crow.
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4. While reform is needed in Albany and D.C.,
many problems can be fixed at the City level.
It’s time for a new approach to our drug
policies, based in public health and safety, where
government is
-coordinating efforts across agencies
-ending racially biased policing
-reducing barriers to treatment and services
-promoting effective prevention education
-addressing collateral consequences
-identifying and reducing fiscal waste
Ending the New stigma, and more
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5. What should be
the future of
drug policy
in NYC?
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6. Breakout!
•How do we reduce the harm
associated with drug misuse?
•How do we reduce the role of the
criminal justice system in our drug
policies?
•How do we promote health-based
solutions?
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