Arrests for pot possession rose more than a third in the first three months of this year, according to a report released Wednesday — even though the NYPD had promised in 2014 it was going to ease up on marijuana collars.

The NYPD nabbed 4,225 people for pot possession between January and March, according to state data released Wednesday by the Police Reform Organizing Project. That’s a sharp increase from the 2,960 arrested during the corresponding period last year, the report said.

An abrupt drop in pot possession arrests in early 2015 was due to a historic change in NYPD policy.

On Nov. 11, 2014, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton announced that people caught with less than 25 grams of marijuana would no longer be arrested, effective immediately. Instead, they were to be issued a noncriminal violation in the form of a summons. Repeat offenders would get a fine. Anyone caught smoking on the street, however, would still wind up in jail, Bratton cautioned.

“It’s still against the law. I’m not giving out get-out-of-jail-for-free cards,” he said at the time. [Read more at the New York Daily News]