Pubdate: Fri, 01 Nov 2013
Source: East Valley Tribune (AZ)
Copyright: 2013 East Valley Tribune.
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Author: Kirk Muse

COMMONS SENSE 'SO-CALLED' WAR ON DRUGS A SHAM

Common sense dictates that our police must be solving a much higher
percent of homicides today as compared to the 1960s. After all,
today's police departments have access to DNA evidence that didn't
exist during the 1960s. And police departments today can run finger
prints through high tech computers and find an exact match out of 100s
of millions finger prints on file. Back in the 1960s this technology
did not exist.

So why do police only solve just over sixty percent of homicides today
while during the 1960s, they solved more than ninety percent of homicides?

The answer is our so-called war on drugs. Today police have huge
financial incentives make drug busts and to confiscate drug dealers
money and property, but no financial incentives to solve rapes,
robberies and or murders.

I'd like to add To those who think that our drug prohibition polices
somehow protect children and our society, I strongly suggest they
search on Google or Youtube.com for: "Retired Police Captain
demolishes the war on drugs."

Kirk Muse,

Mesa
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