Law Abiding Citizen
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Has the war on drugs strained the relationship between civilians and police?
I come from a small family of police, and I found that drugs being illegal has strained the relationship between the people and law enforcement. I feel that all of this hatred and violence is because of the very fact that drugs are illegal. It has pinned the otherwise law abiding citizen against the government and the people that are there here to enforce these laws.
Definitely, even more so because the "War on Drugs" is also a race issue. Penalties for crack, more frequently used by poor blacks, are much stiffer than those for cocaine, the designer drug of white America. Nationwide, black men are sent to prison on drug charges at 13 times the rate of white men.
The US now has the largest prison population on the planet, accounting for about one fourth of the world’s total prisoners. A large percentage of those prisoners have been convicted of non-violent drug offenses.
"A U.S. Justice Department report released on November 30, 2006 showed that a record 7 million people — or one in every 32 American adults — were behind bars, on probation or on parole at the end of last year. Of the total, 2.2 million were in prison or jail."
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Prison _System/US_MostPrisonersWorld.html
"Due to harsh new sentencing guidelines, such as ‘three-strikes, you’re out,’ a disproportionate number of young Black and Hispanic men are likely to be imprisoned for life under scenarios in which they are guilty of little more than a history of untreated addiction and several prior drug-related offenses."
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/node/64
Clearly, policies like these are going to create a strain between civilians and police.
Gourdman | Dec 09, 2009
Yes. In addition it has led to countless needless deaths and has wasted billions of taxpayer dollars.
Cat Hat | Dec 09, 2009
It strains the relationship between civilians who use drugs and police. But so does traffic enforcement.
brucec83 | Dec 09, 2009
The War on Drugs has done that, plus this short list:
1. It has incarcerated millions of non-violent offenders, certainly creating more violence among them.
2. It has increased the violence associated with the trade. Only criminals are involved with the distribution of drugs. As they have no respect for the drug laws, so they have no respect for other laws.
3. It has put more dangerous drugs on the street.
4. It has made millionaires out of murderers.
desotobrave | Dec 09, 2009
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