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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsA Drug Arrest Every 18 Seconds
By Ed Brayton
LEAP -- Law Enforcement Against Prohibition -- is one of my favorite organizations in the country. It's a group of some 13,000 police officers, judges, prosecutors and prison wardens who are opposed to drug prohibition and want it ended. On their blog, they note a new FBI report that shows a staggering rate of drug arrests in this country.
A group of police and judges who want to legalize drugs pointed to new FBI numbers released today as evidence that the "war on drugs" is a failure that can never be won. The data, from the FBI's "Crime in the United States" report, shows that in 2008 there were 1,702,537 arrests for drug law violations, or one drug arrest every 18 seconds.Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 18, 2009 (boomark / email).
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