Pubdate: Sun, 27 Oct 2013
Source: Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Copyright: 2013 Sun-Sentinel Company
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Author: Kirk Muse
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v13/n514/a08.html

POLICE ENTICED BY FINANCIAL INCENTIVES

Regarding Justin Pearson's thoughtful Oct. 21 Viewpoint: "Policing 
for profit is a nationwide epidemic":

To those who think that drug prohibition somehow protects our 
children and society, I'd like them to search on Google or YouTube 
for "Retired police captain demolishes the war on drugs." You will 
see that our so-called war on drugs substantially increases all other crime.

Back in the 1960s, police solved more than 90 percent of all 
homicides. Today they solve just over 60 percent. Why? Because of our 
so-called war on drugs.

There are huge financial incentives for police to make drug busts and 
confiscate the drug dealers' money and property, but no financial 
incentive to solve rapes, robberies or murders.

Kirk Muse, Mesa, Ariz.
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