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Topic: Focusing on drug markets rather than users means less crime
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Scarne
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http://www.economist.com/node/21548989
Police watched seven people sell drugs in Marshall Courts and Seven Oaks, two districts in south-eastern Newport News, in Virginia. They built strong cases against them. They shared that information with prosecutors. But then the police did something unusual: they sent the seven letters inviting them to police headquarters for a talk, promising that if they came they would not be arrested. Three came, and when they did they met not only police and prosecutors, but also family members, people from their communities, pastors from local churches and representatives from social-service agencies. Their neighbours and relatives told them that dealing drugs was hurting their families and communities. The police showed them the information they had gathered, and they offered the seven a choice: deal again, and we will prosecute you. Stop, and these people will help you turn your lives around.
 
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Scarne posted:
http://www.economist.com/node/21548989
Police watched seven people sell drugs in Marshall Courts and Seven Oaks, two districts in south-eastern Newport News, in Virginia. They built strong cases against them. They shared that information with prosecutors. But then the police did something unusual: they sent the seven letters inviting them to police headquarters for a talk, promising that if they came they would not be arrested. Three came, and when they did they met not only police and prosecutors, but also family members, people from their communities, pastors from local churches and representatives from social-service agencies. Their neighbours and relatives told them that dealing drugs was hurting their families and communities. The police showed them the information they had gathered, and they offered the seven a choice: deal again, and we will prosecute you. Stop, and these people will help you turn your lives around.
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People are sheep, FAUX NEWWS proves this everyday. We need to legalize all drugs across the board and then spend a fraction of the money from the "War On Drugs" to educate the sheep that drugs are bad.
Problem solved.
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I heard a story about this on BBC a few years back. Never heard how it worked out though. I know the story I heard said that they had a fairly decent success rate getting individual dealers to stop working the streets, but they hadn't seen a dramatic decrease in overall crime in the community as a whole, just in the areas where the most visible street dealing was going on.
Hard to convince a guy to stop doing something that makes him rich and take a job at McD's, easier to convince a guy to do that something somewhere people can't see him.
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the easiest way to stop the dealers is to remove the prohibition of drugs and the artificially high prices it creates which is the driving force for people to be dealers in the first place
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Those street dealers are no diffent than the users...if theyre not on the corner then somebody else will be.
There is a lot of money to be made. We should legalize all drugs.
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Scarne posted:
http://www.economist.com/node/21548989
Police watched seven people sell drugs in Marshall Courts and Seven Oaks, two districts in south-eastern Newport News, in Virginia. They built strong cases against them. They shared that information with prosecutors. But then the police did something unusual: they sent the seven letters inviting them to police headquarters for a talk, promising that if they came they would not be arrested. Three came, and when they did they met not only police and prosecutors, but also family members, people from their communities, pastors from local churches and representatives from social-service agencies. Their neighbours and relatives told them that dealing drugs was hurting their families and communities. The police showed them the information they had gathered, and they offered the seven a choice: deal again, and we will prosecute you. Stop, and these people will help you turn your lives around.
Brilliant! I love it!
Definitely worth trying.
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IMHO posted:
People are sheep, FAUX NEWWS proves this everyday. We need to legalize all drugs across the board and then spend a fraction of the money from the "War On Drugs" to educate the sheep that drugs are bad.
Problem solved.
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Ptilk posted:
Hard to convince a guy to stop doing something that makes him rich and take a job at McD's, easier to convince a guy to do that something somewhere people can't see him.
http://www.freakonomics.com/books/freakonomics/chapter-excerpts/chapter-3/
"Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live with Their Moms?"
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