Active Duty Cop: "The war on drugs is a war on people. I did not get in law enforcement to destroy a person’s future because that person had marijuana or a pill in their pocket. Why would you want to destroy that person’s future and cause them great harm because of that? It’s not worth it.”’

n1nj4_v5_p1r4t3 · 25 days

thank you

Wiebelhaus · 25 days

Pigs just kicked in my neighbors door full swat team , at lest 20 of them. I watched it go down. The arrested him , his wife and took his kids away. In the court listings the next day it shows "POSS <2oz" for both of them. All that shit for simple possession? I'm appalled.

MedeaDemonblood · 25 days

I'm really pleased to see this, both because of how I feel about drug prohibition and because the cops have been in the news for a lot of bad shit lately. I'm glad there are still good cops out there.

autotldr · 13 days

This is an automatically generated TL;DR, original reduced by 91%.

Statistics like a citizen being arrested for drugs every 19 seconds in 2010, and 1.6 million people incarcerated over drugs in 2009, were nothing compared to what he actually experienced in the front lines of the drug war on America's users.

For this officer in particular, it's much more than that: "The war on drugs is a war on people," he claimed.

Alcohol is a serious drug that can be abused, but I just didn't see the calls on other drugs like I had been led to believe.

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stringerbell · 26 days

Why would you want to destroy a person's future and cause them great harm, just over a pill?...

Because you're an ignorant, hypocritical religious-conservo-Republican (like the majority of the country), that's why!

corby315 · 26 days

One can say it is not worth it for that person to have those things in their pocket.

The people who get caught are, for the most part, careless. It is a necessity to know that just because you do not agree with the war on drugs it does not mean there isn't one. It would be easier to make a point against the war on drugs if people were not caught with them. I have friends who smoke and dabble in other recreational drugs. They do not drive or go out in public with the drugs, therefore they have never been arrested.

It is easier to simply adhere to the laws as they are now and wait for them to change.

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