Full Version: Tactics in the War on Drugs
QUOTE(CruisingRam @ What's the Problem?! thread)
Speaking on strictly the criminal sense, Nightimer is dead on in the crime reasoning- thre is some social reasons for blacks being arrested as well. For instance, It is pretty well acknowledged that the majority of drug use, especially "casual" drugs, are mostly done by whites. So, you would think that whites arrest for drug crimes would be proportional to the use- but it is not. As a cop friend of mine pointed out- the "traditional" (if that is a good word) place to sell drugs for whites is in a "suburb" setting, much harder to get group busts, where the blacks tend to sell thier drugs out in the open, on a street corner, very easy to survialence and but in a group. Thier is politics involved here, where politicians, around election time, demand some busts, and the amount of manpower neccesary for the busts is less, and the politicians get what they want.
Who's in charge in our "War on Drugs"? Is the war being fought with reasonable tactics?
Note: This is assuming the "War on Drugs" should be fought at all. We already have a thread on that particular subject.
I think the "War on Drugs" is being run by politicians for sure but several large busts have been made lately ( in Ohio and Texas i think). i think that this war is being fought on political grounds in a lot of cases and politicians don't actually see a feasable end to drug trade, however i do think that good things are happening as a result of this political tactic. With this relative success of late, those in charge need to look at the tactics being used now, isolate what is successful, and refine it even more.
There are always big drug busts, it's not as if politicians haven't refined their tactics numerous times already. I feel moreso that this "war" isn't really even faught, but is more an appealing argument politicians can make to sway voters, if even that, considering that a lot of voters see right through these plans to fight this "war." It's a battle that will likely never end, if it's even actually being faught...
QUOTE(raybb @ Aug 26 2003, 06:27 PM)
It's a battle that will likely never end, if it's even actually being faught...
Often times people say that as if the fight against any type of crime would end short of legalization...
More info on whose in charge:
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Administrator - Karen Tandy
Acting Deputy Administrator - Michele Leonhart
Assistant Administrator, Operational Support Division - William B. Simpkins
Chief of Operations - Rogelio E. Guevara
Assistant Administrator for Intelligence - Steven W. Casteel
Chief Financial Officer - Frank M. Kalder, Jr.
Chief Counsel - Cynthia R. Ryan
Acting Deputy Administrator - Michele Leonhart
Assistant Administrator, Operational Support Division - William B. Simpkins
Chief of Operations - Rogelio E. Guevara
Assistant Administrator for Intelligence - Steven W. Casteel
Chief Financial Officer - Frank M. Kalder, Jr.
Chief Counsel - Cynthia R. Ryan
DEA LEADERSHIP
There is absolutely no tactic that will work. There never has been and never will be at least as far as a prohibitionist type of "war" is concerned. The only "tactic" that has any chance of working at all is decrimilization, education and treatment. Anything else is the equivalent of stopping the atomic bomb from dropping on Hiroshima with "STOP, YOU'RE UNDER ARREST"! Gee, maybe if they had a few feds getting rich seizing their property and shouting all the while "STOP, YOU'RE UNDER ARREST", that bomb may have stopped, just like it stopped Al Capone!
As long as there are customers, there will be product. Certainly we should forget about trying to incarcerate recreational users of soft drugs who manage to do it without creating some kind of burden to society. Extremely harsh punishment for producing and selling is the only weapon that may work, and we don't seem to be using that particular weapon in this country.
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