The War on Drugs: 30 years of Failure [View All]

http://www.reason.com/news/show/126026.html

This quote just about sums up the whole stupid, tragic mess:

"The police departments that work in these hard neighborhoods are basically armies of occupation. Their job is to keep these people suppressed."


by:

Ed Burns, 62, came to writing late in life, after a tour in Vietnam and two decades working homicide and narcotics in the Baltimore Police Department. He also taught seventh grade in Baltimore’s public schools, an experience he has said compared psychologically with Vietnam. In 1997 Burns and Simon, who met when Simon was covering cops, co-wrote The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, the acclaimed true story of a single intersection in drug-plagued West Baltimore that later became an Emmy-winning HBO miniseries. In January of this year, as The Wire was closing out its run, Burns and Simon finished shooting a new HBO miniseries based on Evan Wright’s book Generation Kill, an account of the first days of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.


Good article, enjoy.