[Indy Pendance]

The small time seller, IE 10-20 dollar deals, will be out on the street in hours doing it again. If he is thrown in jail, another person will just take his place. If the supply is dried up, he won't have anything to sell. The current system is not working to stop drugs, we are wasting our money this way. What is your solution to get drugs off the streets that will be effective and permanent? I suggested to go after the supply, you told me not to call the cops if my house was burglarized.

[LexBaird]

I suggested to go after the supply, you told me not to call the cops if my house was burglarized.

Sure. It fits your logic. Instead of trying to stop burglars, cops should instead go after all the fences, because then the burglars wouldn't have anyone to sell to, right? Your house being broken into is strictly small time, not worthy of police attention when they have bigger fish to catch.

What is your solution to get drugs off the streets that will be effective and permanent?

There is no more an effective and permanent solution to street drugs than there is for mugging, theft and black marketeering will always exist. The answer certainly isn't to ignore it. The ACLU wouldn't like my approach. Something along the lines of injecting the convicted street dealer with all the drugs found on him at the time of arrest.