Pubdate: Tue, 02 Jan 2007
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA)
Copyright: 2007 Philadelphia Newspapers Inc
Contact:  http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/340
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1494/a08.html
Author: Howard J. Wooldridge

TO END THE CRIME, END THE PROHIBITION

Re: "Get crime off street? They see one way," Dec. 26:

As a retired police detective, perhaps I can help Steve Carmichael in 
reducing crime in Camden by 50 percent overnight. His idea of a 
one-way street may be of some slight benefit in reducing crime and 
violence, but it is just a slight nibble at the edges.

The cancer, the up-stream problem, is the policy of drug prohibition. 
End it and no more drugs will be sold on the sidewalks. Customers 
would park their car and walk into a state-regulated store, just like 
Pennsylvania has for the two deadliest drugs, alcohol and tobacco.

Ending prohibition is not a solution for the drug problem. It is a 
time-tested solution to the crime associated with prohibition.

Officer Howard J. Wooldridge (retired)

Education Specialist,

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Washington
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