Pubdate: Fri, 04 Jul 2014
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA)
Copyright: 2014 Philadelphia Newspapers Inc
Contact:  http://www.philly.com/inquirer/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/340
Author: Janet Lorenz
Page: A15
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n555/a02.html

NEXT, TROOPS QUARTERED IN OUR HOMES?

Just what problem are we solving by seizing the home of a 69-year-old 
widow because her son sold a small amount of marijuana out of her 
house ("Revisiting civil forfeiture," June 30)? Perhaps it's a 
problem of drug enforcement impotence at District Attorney Seth 
Williams' office. And that would be true across the country, as the 
war on drugs through policing, seizing, and sentencing is an 
expensive, colossal failure. This kind of domineering action adds to 
our city's problems - more displacement, more asset-poverty, and more 
mistrust and bile toward not just the police and district attorney, 
but all of us who can afford not to be this widow.

Janet Lorenz, Philadelphia,  ---
MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom