I know it from having been a judge, prosecutor and defense counsel for 35 years, both in and out of the military. The civilian world is much more forgiving than the military, and in my considerable experience in all aspects of criminal justice, over 90% of people charged with a minor possession offense have the charge dismissed after successfully completing a diversion course. So no, the Bravo Sierra isn’t coming from this particular front. My response was to the writer’s horrendous overgeneralization of the ACTUAL effects on most offenders.
So the government, after jailing millions, fining them, forcing them into government probation programs, creating mountains of paperwork, files, hiring tens of thousands of people to administrate all this insanity, jamming the courts etc, they simply dismiss OVER 90 percent of them after charging the tax payers hundreds of billions for this colossal war on drugs disaster?