Supporters of legalisation promoted it as a means of combating drug cartels and relieve the police of time-wasting arrests for possession of small amounts of the drug.
At the Washington demonstrations, some activists did not tell the police ahead of time about their actions.
Etan's family was told by the police ahead of time that Mr. Hernandez was going to be arrested in their son's murder, Mr. Kelly said.
The files on Mr. Gaxiola, which refer to him coldly as "the element," were compiled by the Federal Security Directorate, known as the D.F.S., the political police of the time.
The Police Have Used Tasers on Police Hundreds of Times.
Because he was an African American teenager driving a nice car, Jordan said, he was pulled over and questioned by the police dozens of times.
Mr Lacson accused Roberto Lastimoso, chief of police at the time, of protecting drug traffickers.
For all the careful accounting, however, there are two figures Americans don't have: the precise number of people killed by the police, and the number of times police use excessive force.
While routine/non-emergency duties constituted about 75% of police work time, 77% of sudden cardiac deaths occurred during non-routine tasks.
Sir Ronnie Flanagan's recent inquiry into policing reported that recording stops consumed over 48,000 hours of police time.
But he had not disclosed his hearing of voices to police at the time of arrest because, due to his condition, it was his "private raison d'etre".
