This by itself should be reason enough to end it, because this type of corruption is almost inevitable.
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This by itself should be reason enough to end it, because this type of corruption is almost inevitable.
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I disagree. Quotas in law enforcement are wrong for any violation, whether drugs or speeding tickets.
I think this from Professor Reynolds is a much better reason, since the ability to confisicate personal property in this manner is allowed only by the drug laws:
“The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and Tewksbury Police Department plan to take the entire property — worth well over $1 million — because on some 30 dates since 1994 guests staying at the motel have been arrested for drug-related crimes.”
I understand how this may get around the 5th Amendment, because the DEA will claim there were 30 cases (not sure how many were found guilty) of due process of law, but the person(s) deprived of property were never found guilty of any crime. Further, this incentive for the police departments will assure Rand’s story becomes more common and much more complex to clean up.
I’m waiting for some drug hanky panky here soon in NC.
I’m not sure if this is just statewide, or if it’s nationwide, but we have pharmacies, insurance companies and law enforcement people advertising a program where people turn in unused prescriptions so they can be destroyed instead of US chucking then down the toilet. The Law Enforcement Agencies are supposed to burn them during regular drug disposals.
I’m betting dollars to donuts that ‘some’ of the narcotics and anti-depressants WILL find their way to the street, just like illegal drugs do now periodically.
I’ve been a proponent of Legalization, Taxation, Education for drugs for years. I’ve never been able to see why people don’t see the similarities between drugs NOW and liquor during prohibition. Think of the savings of money if we did away with the DEA and most of the drug patrolling agencies of our various gub’ments.
“We fabricated drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas” probably happens every single day in every city in the country.
I worked with a guy from The Netherlands once. When I asked how the problems were with legal drugs available there, he said, “if you don’t like heroin, don’t go to the bars that serve it.”
And this kind of corruption has been going on in NYC for decades. See Robert Daley’s 1978 book Prince of the City, about NYC detective Bob Leuci, and (highly recommended) the 1981 movie of the same name, starring Treat Williams and directed by Sidney Lumet…