You Want to Get Serious About Crime in America & Mexico?

[jerrymrc]

I am just about at the point that they call me an old fart. I did not get it then and I still do not get it now.(the war on drugs) there are many things out there that do very bad things to people. Those that do not learn that will become Soylent Green and those that do go on to lead normal and productive lives. I am living proof. Class of 76.

Bert and Thomas will be along shortly to tell you that I am not normal.

[CO Hugh]

The Dutch also have among the lowest rates of complaints against LEOs than any nation in the developed world (to include US- can't find the statistics, but saw it in a program about the world's war on drugs). Their cops, instead of out looking for druggies and spending BILLIONS on a losing drug war, actually work at preventing crime and enforcing laws like theft, assault, vandalism, and the like, non-drug related stuff.

Is that the same Denmark (Scandinavia) overrun by Muslims raping their women?

[johnyfive]

Whoa, if we legalize drugs then there goes the low oversight, low cost inmate for our privately run prison system. In order to stay afloat they'll be forced to jail actual dangerous people and only make a fraction of the profit. Sure, it'll be better for law abiding citizens, but think about all the bad people collecting in one place, it's a powder keg, they might hurt one another. I mean, if it'll save just one felon's life, shouldn't we all keep making the sacrifice of living in a society that tolerates violent criminals living among us because it was cheaper to jail a pot smoker?

[Jer]

Wow. I'm actually pleasantly surprised to find so many like-minded individuals on this forum as I figured this mindset would be met with a fair amount of opposition.

I'm curious though, those that feel this way... is this something you've kind of always felt or did you use to think the other way and recently came around to this way of thinking based on recent events?

For the record I don't do elicit drugs nor would I if they were legal. I choose to do some things that aren't legal (mostly traffic stuff) and I also choose not to do some things that are legal. At some point we just have to trust our moral compass and not the government to know right from wrong.