Absolutely untrue. A big percentage of the people who are generationally poor have substance abuse problems. We have the welfare state -- in part -- because irresponsible people would be dying in the street if taxpayers were not forced to pay for their lifestyle.
They are issued a box of chalk at police academy graduation and told they are ONLY capable of draw outlines of the dead at crime scenes and not preventing victimizations or same.
The “War on Drugs” generates billions in federal grant dollars to state and local law enforcement agencies. The result is an overemphasis on drug enforcement and a resistance to liberalizing drug statutes. The “War on Drugs” has been a main factor in the militarization of local police departments over the last 30 years.
When this all began with the Nixon Administration a federal grant dollar was divided with 25 cents going to interdiction and enforcement and 75 cents going to treatment and education. Over the years that ratio has reversed with interdiction/enforcement getting the lion’s share.
As a general rule, cops can’t act. they can only react.
They can not for example cordon off several blocks odf Chicago and gather up all the Trayvons and take their guns. That would be illegal search and seizure. They can only act by investigating the shooting. murders.
To beg for action is to beg for loss of freedom
Good stuff.
The power needs to go back to the people instead of the government.
Not as long as Obama’s in charge; it’s much more useful - and generates more publicity - to block Washington memorials and close forests.
It’s important for Americans to realize that the police are just a convenience. Every honest, able bodied citizen are the enforcers of the law, and as groups, we even decide guilt or innocence of someone accused of a crime.
As a convenience, the police really only do three things:
1) They clean up after crimes, gathering evidence that can implicate someone in a crime, as well as determining if someone is a victim of crime.
2) Once they have evidence of a crime, and a suspect, they are to doggedly pursue and arrest that suspect.
3) They are a day and night watch for a community. If they see something amiss, they are authorized to do something about it.
So everything the police do beyond these three things is questionable, and should be questioned.
Color me totally against the war on drugs. Its part of a push to control peoples medical lives, and their food, too. It is no more a mandate of the gov’t to keep me sober and clean than it is for the gov’t to feed me.
War on drugs is behind a gazillion abuses of our constitutional rights on a daily basis.
Also, ending completely the war on drugs would knock out the economic foundations of the gangs, black, biker, and mexican. All those groups are primarily about drugs at the core.
The War on Drugs is a complete waste of time, money, lives, and freedoms.
Want violent crime to go down?
Want property crime to go down?
Want less traffic stops by police? Less daily intrusions?
Want less money spent on the militarization of the police?
Want less money spent on the prison industry?
Want your Constitutional rights restored?
If so, be dead set against the drug war. I am, and I fought in it neck deep for five years.