Police departments have demonstrated time and again that they cannot properly meter the use of SWAT teams. Therefore, SWAT should be ended nationwide.
We can’t ‘win’ the war-on-drugs without turning this country into a police state it is becoming. The drug warriors will disagree and think more militarized police and prisons are needed. We should decriminalize all personal possession like Portugal did. They’re having good results, less crime, less spent on cops, courts, and prisons; more citizen cooperation and trust and their druggie problems haven’t gotten worse to the chagrin of the drug warriors.