Your assessment could not be more wrong. Drugs are ruining rural communities, who have little funds to fight this war. People in urban area don't have a clue about this, they live over in their suburbs and gated communities and don't have a clue. This is a war in rural Texas that we are fighting. You people need to wake up.
M. Hardin
of TX
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Apr 07, 2009 17:50:36 PM
Economic stimulus for drug war
Brilliant article and observation.Brilliant.
truthseeker
of IL
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Feb 22, 2009 17:25:25 PM
History of previous Byrne grant Enforcement Pork
The Interim Report (pdf, see pp 39-43) of the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee, quoted below, demands an end to Texas' regional narcotics task force system as we know it:
"Continuing to sanction task force operations as stand-alone law enforcement entities - with widespread authority to operate at will across multiple jurisdictional lines - should not continue. The current approach violates practically every sound principle of police oversight and accountability applicable to narcotics interdiction."
CJC plainly condemns Texas' network of drug task forces financed by the federal Byrne grant program. The committee , led by Republican former Travis County Sheriff Chairman Terry Keel, R-Austin, unanimously agreed and did not minced words in its rebuke of the task force system.
Regulation, science based education and treating abuse as a medical problem is a better drug policy that increases public safety and harm reduction. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition has kicked off the 'We Can Do It Again' project, calling for an end to drug prohibition.
Considering the oppression, the outrageous violence and official lawlessness triggered by the drug war will end with repeal just as these policy created problems vanished with the repeal of alcohol prohibition, what are we waiting for? Warriors can get their adenaline rush chasing murderers and other violent predators.
Colleen McCool
of TX
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Feb 20, 2009 18:53:16 PM
There is a lot to be said
for reducing the drug supply. There is a lot to be said for reducing the influence of drug gangs. Pound the suppliers.
There is nothing good to be said for trying to incarcerate more of the mere users.
Law enforcement often slips on the former and capitalizes on the latter. Chalk this backwards approach up to inside bribery, most likely.
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M. Hardin of TX @ Apr 07, 2009 17:50:36 PM
truthseeker of IL @ Feb 22, 2009 17:25:25 PM
Colleen McCool of TX @ Feb 20, 2009 18:53:16 PM
Muser of NM @ Feb 20, 2009 17:25:37 PM
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