Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ...
by pjc50 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:40AM
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In some parts of the US, the police have entered the war on drugs on the side of drugs. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-police-union...
> It is notable that by many measures, policing did not decline with the advent of the four-pillars policy. As Figure 2 shows, policing continued to be very active well after the drug policy changes occurred, though the bulk of arrests since the early 1990s have been related to cannabis use by young persons (Reuter and Schnoz 2009). Relatively few of these arrests, however, led to incarceration and many resulted in administrative fines not registered on a person’s criminal record (Ibid.; Killias 2009).