Law

By almost every metric, a broad consensus among policymakers, researchers, and public opinion is that the "war on drugs" has been a failure in achieving its stated goals. The campaign, launched by President Richard Nixon in 1971, has not curbed drug use or ended the drug trade, but has had devastating social and economic consequences. There has been no measurable impact on supply and demand and America has spent over $1 trillion fighting this war and after 50 years drug use remains a problem. The roots of the problem began of all places in schools. When the schools tried to expel disruptive students, they were disproportionately minorities so they stopped. The same thing happened with suspensions. Next it moved to law enforcement. Stop and frisk was an effective way of getting illegal guns off the street but once again it involved too many minorities. For the same reasons, cash bail was eliminated as was incarcerating repeat criminals. The latest initiative is not releasing migrant criminals to federal authorities. Instead, they are comingled with other migrates impeding the feds from arresting them. It is the same strategy used by Hamas when they intersperse fighters with civilians. With the new approach drugs crossing the southern border have been curtailed and boats carrying drugs are being attacked. The next move will be for the drug dealers to kidnap children and put them on the drug boats so they can declare that the US is killing children. This hesitancy has happened in Minneapolis when Somali immigrants were exposed to theft of Covid money and were not prosecuted for fear of being seen as racist. Some people are concerned that minority groups are receiving special treatment under the law.