He said the policy criminalizes actions that federal law treats as a civil matter.
Advocates also complain that the detention policy criminalizes people who are very often running only from war or persecution.
In the city's African American and Latino communities, residents say the policy criminalizes young people and fosters a sense of fear and distrust towards the police.
"No one should live in fear of being stopped whenever he leaves his home to go about the activities of daily life," she wrote.One of the plaintiffs in the case, Lalit Clarkson, 31, a union organizer, said after the ruling that "the stop-and-frisk policy criminalizes a whole race and community of people, just for going to work, going to get some food, going on a train to go downtown".
The United Nations' global drug policy criminalizes most of the popular ways to get fucked up.
Local governments continue to enact policies criminalizing homelessness and making it difficult for those who attempt to feed or shelter the homeless.
All of this because tax policy has criminalized cigarettes sales.
If a governmental policy, say a policy that criminalizes the sell and use of dangerous recreational drugs, would prevent many from ruining their lives while infringing the individuality of only a few, then, contrary to Mill, the government may do better in discharging its duty to promote good human lives by adopting the policy than by not adopting it.
Only, nobody listens to Nick Clegg, and the Home Office remains stubbornly adamant that their policy of criminalizing people for taking drugs is the best option available.
Marijuana accounts for the overwhelming majority of the drugs seized along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to data mined by CIR -- a consequence of misguided U.S. policy of criminalizing a soft drug that state governments are now legalizing.
