I think while I was taking off my shoe laces and my belt before entering the holding cell was when it occurred to me just how stupid this incident was. New York City is a not necessary a dangerous place but it's busy and a lot of stuff can happen. I watch the news every day and hear of innocent women missing, reported rapists on the lose, people being beat up, mugged; the raped, battered, beaten and dead bodies of defenseless girls lye in the back alleyways of lowest east side Manhattan or the not so friendly junctures of Alphabet City-Meanwhile about six or seven police officers are busy booking and processing a few harmless pot smokers. There are actual criminals out there, and these guys are busy filling up there quota for the month. Theoretically speaking, I'd love to hear the family of the victim of a car jacking gone murder after they find out that the under cover cops patrolling the area were around the block making sure that there's nobody taking a toke of a joint before heading into a rock concert. I'm sure they'd be thrilled. Let me ask a question, and before I do let me say that I'm full public transportation all the time. Whens the last time you heard about someone getting into a car accident and killing somebody mainly due to the fact that the driver was smoking pot? Now think about the last drunk driver to kill someone. Happens every single day, people get behind the wheel thinking they're okay to drive and then end up on trial for vehicular manslaughter. If we were drinking beer on that bench as oppose to smoking that joint we would have just receive a summons and a fine-that would have taken the officers five minutes. But this process took at least from 7:30 (those other three dudes in the back of the van said they were in there for an hour before we got in) til almost one in the morning. How many people got held up at gun point-how many purses were snatched from the defenseless elderly in the time these guys were on the clock? The question of the ages. They took my shoe laces-like I was some sort of hard core criminal or something. The justice system sickens me.