SUCH A WASTE, to risk the life of one of our finest to accomplish what any high school student can do - purchase $60 of meth in a parking lot. Shouldn't we allocate our resources in more meaningful pursuits?

Even if we had succeeded in busting a street level addict/dealer without injury to an officer, what would we have actually done? We would saddle our legal system with tens of thousands of dollars in expenses trying him, we might pay his room and board in jail for years, and does anybody think that would prevent even one other addict from buying $60 of meth from a different dealer that very night? Let's treat our police with more respect.

Albuquerque

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