We have sucked at wars for quite a while
The "war on drugs" is a big component of both America's problem with police and its problem with prisons.
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Please, please, don't try to get good at it again.
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David Simon wrote, in my opinion, one of the most succinct, accurate descriptions of how the drug war impacted policing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BA5za4VsskM …
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Still the best TV show of all time in my mind. And I say that as a Brit. So much we can all learn from it.
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Did the "war on poverty" ever end?
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I think the "war on everything" is a component of America's problems
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I’m not so sure it is the war on drugs, is it? Because most people in prison are serving sentences for violent crimes, not drugs. Right?
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You might be right. When the coolest thing, from an enforcement perspective, that can happen during a traffic stop is finding packages of stuff, you get lots of unnecessary, intrusive encounters. They even share pictures of drug finds.
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If we had tech that could detect drug odors in the air outside a house or car, you could eliminate the scavenger hunt and just enforce where you know there's a problem.
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And there I was thinking it was a great rock band.
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