Why get arrested for small amounts of marijuana?

The article "Marijuana law just creates criminals," talks about the injustice of arrest of people with small amounts of marijuana. The author, Hakeem Jeffries, stated that the majority of these people are black and latino. Jeffries said that in New york, this law was dropped. Meaning that if you have a small amount of marijuana, you won't go to jail. However, New York police do something called "stop and frisk." This allows the police to stop anyone they want and tell them to empty their pockets. Now, if the person has marijuana, it's seen, and the police can arrest them, even if it's a small amount.

Jeffries also stated that this is unfair due to the people they frisk. He said that a lot of white young people have a large possession of marijuana, but the police rarely check them. This is bad because, now they have a lower chance in doing anything in life. Their lives basically "spiral downward," Jeffries said. He said that possession of marijuana is a crrime, or is not a crime, but it can't be bad for one group, and okay for another.

In my opinion, I totally agree with Jeffires. I mean, to me, marijuana is terrible, but if you're going to have a small possession, why is it a huge crime? If it's going to be a crime, then it needs to be a crime to everyone, not just a certain group. Crimes are supposed to be illegal to everyone, not just a specific group of people.

Also, I don't think the police should just go around frisking people. Unless you have a search warrant, I don't want you frisking me. I don't care if I have marijuana or not, it's just not polite to frisk people all willy-nilly. That's just how I feel.

Jovan Belcher, Cheifs football player, dead with girlfriend

In the article "Tradegy in KC," the author brings to light the death of Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend. The article states that Jovan first shot his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, then shot himself. The way it went down, however, was tragic.

According to the article, Belcher first shot his girlfriend, with whom he had a 3-month daughter with. Then, he went to his home stadium. He was saying his final goodbyes to his coach. With suspicions, the coaches called the cops. Just as the cops arrived, Belcher shot himself in the head; in front of everyone in sight.

This story has many different ways to look at it. I heard that he and his girlfriend had just came back from a Trey Songz concert, and that she was pverly hype over Trey, so Jovan shot her. Then he didn't want to go to jail for life, so he shot himself. However, he may have been going through a rough time, and just went crazy. He shot his girlfriend, then shot himself. What makes it worse is that now their baby doesn't have any parents. He also could have been just a murderer and shot his girl, and didn't want to do life in jail. Either way you put it, the sotry is just a tradegy.

When I first heard about this, I didn't even know he had a daughter. Her exsistence makes this whole thing a different situation. She has to grow up with no parents. She's too young to even remember them. It's just so sad. I apologize to the short length of this blog, but there's not much to say about it. It was tragic