Posted on 10/14/2016 4:25:58 PM PDT by BBell
The “Criminal Justice Industrial Complex” is far too profitable for far too many. What would cops, lawyers, corrections, bail bondsmen, judges and court house employees do? What would happen to the wonderful kick-backs from the dealers?
LOL is right.
The libs want people to believe this BS but very few go to jail on simple MJ possession charge. That’s a damn summons because police don’t want to go through booking someone on this crap. Catch and release.
Now if they were being truthful, they would say that the real reason they are in jail is for warrants, and the dope was due to a search incident to arrest, that I would believe.
you mean we have “millions” in jail for drug use.....wow....love to see the official stats on that...
That’s in NYC alone for only 12 years. So for the forty years from 1976 to 2016, I’d have to say millions nationwide is indisputable.
LOL.
I’m not saying that we have millions of Americans incarcerated at one time right now, what I’m saying is that once you have been convicted of a felony drug crime and have a criminal record, life becomes very difficult. These people have a tough time finding decent jobs, a tough time getting credit, getting into good colleges, etc. They are essentially burdened with an anchor that’s dragging them and into the permanent underclass.
The victims of the criminal justice system could be your friends, your family, and eventually even you.
And our wonderful civil confiscation system has become a de facto tax. Those who benefit by a tax are the first to argue against losing that benefit.
Waco?
So your associates include gang bangers in addition to Soros?
“Would an end to these arrests put over 30% of our Police out of a job? Would an end to the tickets, paroles lawyer fees and fines paid by those accused of pot possession put a city at great financial compromise? I hope not.”
So you’re good with putting otherwise harmless people in cages, so long as it provides jobs and creates revenue?
Okay.
You know that is a God-damned lie, so why don’t you just admit it?
Are you referring to the Soros-funded Drug Policy Alliance?
I will as soon as I see you denounce biker gangs and Soros funded groups.
Why of course not. However I do not separate the world into sheer black and sheer white and believe there are certain canons of civil treatment that should be afforded to everybody.
Your argument and insinuation falls apart the moment it is put under any kind of real examination.
You will do what’s right only when you see someone else do what you say is right?
No. Not justifying it at all. I’m just wondering have the City Court and Legal systems become so dependent on this type of arrest as an artificial way of staying solvent given their expenditures that they would implode or crash without it?
If such is the case, they need to restructure their budgets and their priorities.
Any system that built, in whole or in part, on revenue generated from non-crimes *should* implode.
I don’t know. But the point remains that millions jailed in the last forty years for violating marijuana laws is not an unreasonable estimate.
Here’s something from the ACLU ...
Of the 8.2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88% were for simply having marijuana.
Looks like ‘millions’ is a massive understatement, doesn’t it?
You consider drug dealers as non-criminals?
Oh yes, another great fringe benefit for some in our glorious “War on Drugs”.
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