Marijuana Arrests by Massachusetts Law Enforcement Agencies with Special Jurisdiction, (2007)

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Agency
All
Possession
Sales
Black Pct.
Males
Age
15 to 19
Males
Age 15 to 19
Pct.
Other Drug Arrests
Assumption College 10 10 0 10% 9 90% 1
Barnstable State Police 43 42 1 12% 11 26% 31
Bentley College 1 1 0 0% 0 0% 0
Boston University 10 10 0 20% 3 30% 10
Bridgewater State College Police 34 31 3 0% 18 58% 2
Bristol State Police 259 257 2 23% 60 23% 225
Dean College 1 1 0 0% 1 100% 0
Essex State Police 278 261 17 5% 51 20% 148
Harvard University 5 3 2 33% 0 0% 2
Lasell College 2 2 0 0% 1 50% 0
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts 2 2 0 0% 1 50% 0
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2 2 0 50% 0 0% 3
Massachusetts State College-Westfield Police 7 5 2 20% 2 40% 1
Massasoit Community College 3 3 0 33% 0 0% 0
Merrimack College 1 1 0 0% 1 100% 0
Middlesex State Police 189 177 12 17% 32 18% 146
Norfolk State Police 12 12 0 33% 2 17% 9
Northeastern University 102 98 4 11% 63 64% 1
Plymouth State Police 107 106 1 19% 21 20% 114
Quinsigamond Comm College 1 1 0 0% 0 0% 0
Salem State College Public Safety 4 2 2 50% 0 0% 0
Tufts University:Medford 2 2 0 0% 0 0% 0
University of Massachuetts-Amherst Public Safety 87 70 17 10% 33 47% 14
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Public Safety 4 2 2 0% 1 50% 0
Western New England Coll 1 1 0 0% 0 0% 2
Worcester State Police 283 247 36 6% 48 19% 176

 

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Notes:

This is a wide category of law enforcement agencies that, unlike most local and county police departments, have jurisidictions that do not correspond to a geographic area or are not associated with an exclusive population. These agencies do not report a coverage population to the Uniform Crime Reporting Program and therefore arrest rates can not be calculated for these agencies. The type of agencies in this category vary from state to state, but often include university police agencies, divisions of the state police, transit authority police, and Departments of Parks and Recreation. University police agenices are in this category because student population include individuals who live off-campus as well as on-campus. Many, but not all, state polioce agencies have overlapping jurisidction with local and county police agencies, as do transit authority pooice agencies. The defining characteristic for listing these agencies together, though, is that they do not report population coverage areas to the Uniform Crijme Reporting Program. Because these agencies are often responsible for significant numbers of marijuana arrests and are not included in other tables based on arrest rates they are reported here. However, the arrests of these agencies are reported in county and state level tables.

Other drug crimes refers to drug-related offenses that to no include marijuana. These include sales and possession offenses involving the following catefories of drugs:

Opiates/Cocaine: This category includes opium, cocaine, and their derivatives. Opiate derivatives include, for example, morphine, heroin, and codeine. Cocaine derivative include crack cocaine.

Synthetic Narcotics: This category includes manufactured narcotics and includes, for example, Demerol , methadone, and Oxycontin.

Other Drugs: This category includes dangerous non-narcotic drugs and includes, for example, barbiturates, benzedrine, LSD, methamphetamine, and PCP.

Source: Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data

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