Little Rock City Director Wants Marijuana Arrests to Become Low Priority

Arkansas is split when it comes to the priority police take on marijuana. Ken Richardson, the city’s Director, wants to see the number of marijuana arrests decline dramatically. He’s calling for legislation to adopt a new policy – similar to the Fayetteville ordinance.

Richardson wants tax money shifted to focus more on violent crime, Ozarks First reports. Non-violent offenders wouldn’t be carted off to jail for having a little bit of marijuana on them if Richardson can get legislation adopted.

Little Rock resident Al Moore supports the efforts being made by Richardson, he said, “Know a lot of people with petty marijuana arrests that could be contributing more to society but actually like servicing substantial time or pay substantial fines for just little things like marijuana.”

He also said, “Right now we’re spending too much manpower or woman power in our police department targeting those kinds of criminal activity rather than looking at some of the more I think troubling criminal activity in our community.”