[Know your rights]

According to the article, they're working about as well as our murder laws.

In post-Katrina New Orleans, maybe. In the nation as a whole, almost two-thirds of murders end in arrests ... a proportion surely several powers of 10 higher than the proportion of drug sales that end in arrest.

[robertpaulsen]

So you're saying arresting drug users and dealers should be raised to a higher priority like murder? Or are you saying solving murders should be a lower priority, like drug arrests?

Obviously the disparity bothers you, otherwise you wouldn't be pointing out these statistics.