In a significant blow to New York City's use of stop-and-frisk tactics, the Bronx district attorney's office is no longer prosecuting people who were stopped at public housing projects and arrested for trespassing, unless the arresting officer is interviewed to ensure that the arrest was warranted.
"It's disingenuous of them to say that they're no longer prosecuting misdemeanor marijuana offenses and to get a lot of credit in the media for allegedly no longer prosecuting those cases," she said.
The Environment Agency no longer prosecutes even some of the most extreme pollution events.
Attorney General Eric Holder announced last week that the federal government will no longer prosecute dispensers of medical marijuana if they comply with state law.
This summer, Ms. Rucker notified the Police Department that her office would no longer prosecute Clean Halls or public housing trespassing cases based on paperwork and would require that officers be interviewed.
On the same day the senators introduced their bill, Brooklyn's district attorney announced it would no longer prosecute first-time offenders for low-level misdemeanour marijuana possession.
They bring their own drugs, which remain illegal in Denmark, but police in this neighbourhood, Vesterbro, no longer prosecute them for possession.
Terence Hallinan recently said he would no longer prosecute nonviolent offenses under the three-strikes law.
Nolle pros or prose, short for nolle prosequi, is Latin for, "We shall no longer prosecute".
- Speaking of gay-bashing pastors, another one, Ron Baity from North Carolina, thinks that our nation has "become dumb" because we no longer prosecute gays like we used to, back in the good-ol-days, with arrests for sodomy and such.
The Bronx district attorney's office told the New York Police Department that it would no longer prosecute people stopped for trespassing, unless the officers could demonstrate that the arrests were warranted.
