{"id":6412,"date":"2011-03-16T06:54:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6412"},"modified":"2011-03-16T06:54:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T11:54:10","slug":"since_youre_talking_about_cash-strapped_municipalities_saving_money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/03\/since_youre_talking_about_cash-strapped_municipalities_saving_money.html","title":{"rendered":"Since You&#8217;re Talking About Cash-Strapped Municipalities Saving Money . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/nypd_wants_green_for_blue_at_events_GGmxOgTe7tx9UYcFE2SYxO\">raise $3.4 million year by charging groups like the NYC Marathon for overtime<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2011\/03\/15\/2011-03-15_new_york_spends_75_million_a_year_on_marijuana_arrests_though_having_drug_not_te.html\">you could save $75 million a year by cutting back on pot arrests<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>New York spends $75 million a year to lock up people caught with marijuana, a new study says, even though it&#8217;s not technically a crime.<\/p>\n<p>The report by the Drug Policy Alliance says the NYPD spends that much on 50,000 annual pot arrests, in which 86% of those arrested are black or Latino.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course that might require a reconfiguration of the mayor&#8217;s &#8220;progressive goals,&#8221; but with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2011\/03\/16\/2011-03-16_mayor_mike_bloombergs_approval_rating_hits_lowest_point_in_8_years_51_disapprove.html\">his lowest approval ratings in eight years<\/a>, there&#8217;s room to reconfigure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could raise $3.4 million year by charging groups like the NYC Marathon for overtime or you could save $75 million a year by cutting back on pot arrests: New York spends $75 million a year to lock up people caught with marijuana, a new study says, even though it&#8217;s not technically a crime. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6413,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions\/6413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}