No, what you saw were users who used to a degree of irresponsibility that LE got involved. LE in general often has occasion to deal with drunks, but we would be flat wrong in supposing that most users of the addictive mind-altering drug alcohol are like those encountered by LE.
And what did you see dope do to the community?
Run down property, elder parents/relatives being taken advantage of, child abuse/neglect, lost time/wages (same for drunks). “Good” users (a paradox) are affected by the bad ones through things like exposure to stronger drugs and bad behaviors, the cavalier attitude toward authority (like dims and libertarians).
Go and rationalize to someone else unless you spent time in those circles you are clueless looking in from the burbs. Please don’t try and list your street creds.