Can the police afford to abandon the drug war?

[lnrw]

[Medius]

[nordictruce]

the drug war is nothing more than middle class walfare.

[PoS]

[The dane]

[PoS]

Violent crime in the US has been reaching historical lows so no, they wont have anything to do and the cities will not be justified in maintaining huge budgets for law enforcement.

[lnrw]

Seems like there's always enough crime to go around without manufacturing crime.

This practice would have been called privateering, or piracy.

Medius makes an excellent point. There's rehab clinics in Cali that have patients that have no drug or alcohol problem at all. The clinics are just scamming the system.

How long will this drug war last and at what point do we admit that there will never be enough resources or motivation to make people quit using drugs? Even when you have the power to simply steal the resources.

When they give individual cops a share of the loot, we are done as a civilised nation. That's a real kleptocracy.

[Indy]

Um, don't we think that it's the prison industry that's profiting the most from this and probably driving it?

[Charai]

The problem is this stupid american ethos that everyone is better off working. Instead of just giving corrections officers welfare or unemployment, we manufacture jobs for them to do so the state can give them money. I really wouldn't care either way, but it becomes a problem when that's used as a reason to keep hundreds of thousands of people incarcerated for non-violent offenses.

It will change though. Crime was a serious issue back in the 70's and 80's and all the annoying old people who vote today still remember that. But if you came of age after the early 90's, crime is just not that big of an issue. We are more concern about police abuses and state surveillance. You only have to look at how starkly the opinion of police differs based on age. Some people clearly remember tons of crime and more police putting an end to it, while some of us never really experience bad crime and only have experiences being harassed by police.

[Gremlin]

FACT: Major financial institutions and corporations would collapse without the laundering of the capitol of the drug war.