Month: January 2019

a collection of data counter to the war on drugs narrative

Drug War Obscures Decades of Police Success

If I were a cop, I would not be happy about this In the US these days, discussions about crime are almost never just about crime, it’s always drugs-and-crime, as if referring to a single unified phenomenon, like a dog-and-pony show. But it was not always this way. In fact, for most of America’s 243…
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Suggested New Year’s Resolution for the USA 2019

Today, New Year’s Day, is a day for resolutions. Whether big or small, we make promises to ourselves that we will try to do concrete things to make ourselves, our lives or our community better. So I would like to propose a New Year’s Resolution for the USA: End the 105 year-long experiment of Drug…
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