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In all the years that the 'War on Drugs" has been
enforced by local, state and federal law enforcement
agents, and the hundreds of thousands if not
millions of people who have been arrested,
prosecuted and sentenced to prison/ jail- nothing
has slowed down or stopped the importation of drugs,
the sale of drugs or the use of drugs. You think locking people up will prevent them from having access to drugs? Drugs are one of THE most corrupting influences on the criminal justice system that exists. There is no keeping drugs out of jails and prisons, anymore than we can keep air out of prison.  The
lure of sex, money and goods in exchange for
smuggling in drugs and other contraband is too
strong for many corrections officers to resist.
Prohibition of any vice does not stop it from
being available behind bars.Local or state cops are not the only ones who succumb to the temptation of making a quick buck (or thousands). FBI agents and Homeland Security Agents and politicians can find the lure of the potential payoff too much to resist. Anyone who believes that "eventually" we will win the war on drugs is delusional and has no concept of history. The consequences of alcohol prohibition should have taught us that law enforcement agents are seriously corruptible and that prohibition of the vices in which people willingly engage will never stop those people from engaging in those vices. Laws against activity in which the willing participant is both the victim and the criminal always have and always will engender police corruption and destroy the fabric of the "criminal justice system." As I have stated elsewhere, vice laws are only enforced arbitrarily and selectively. When law enforcement agents can pick and choose which 'victims/criminals' to arrest, the temptation is too great to offer the 'victim/ criminal' the opportunity to make it worth while to not make an arrest. Many law enforcement agents themselves or their families use drugs- which include illicit steroids, pain medication, pot, etc. They know that not every drug user is a drug abuser and while drugs can and do kill, it is the prohibition of drugs which increases the likelihood of drying from the use of a prohibited drug which has been tainted with other ingredients to increase the profits. I am not in favor of drug use... I don't drink alcohol, never smoked and have never used illicit drugs. Drugs may be bad, but the war on drugs is much, much worse. The "war" has corrupted every facet of the criminal justice system and everyone who is connected to the enforcement of "the war." It created thugs like NYPD Michael Dowd, who was often referred to as “a criminal who happened to wear a cop uniform.” He was considered the dirtiest cop in NY (although there were plenty of others). He flaunted his corruption and his Superiors ignored it. 'Despite "incontrovertible indications of serious corruption," the commission said, Internal Affairs never initiated a single investigation of Officer Dowd and, until the Long Island police intervened, the allegations against him "inevitably died a natural death."' Michael Dowd was not the first or the last of the really crooked cops. When will we listen to the reports from the  many commissions that are
formed after the latest scandal involving corrupt
cops? The Knapp Commission (1971) which was
impaneled after the NYPD scandal in the 1970s, which
asks the question "Will history repeat itself? Or
does society finally realize that police
corruption is a problem that must be dealt with
and not just talked about once every twenty years?"
Furthermore, it reports "In recent months there
have been numerous accusations of corruption among
prosecutors, lawyers and judges.... Moreover,
District Attorneys offices are reluctant to
encroach upon each others jurisdictions, much less
investigate each other's personnel..." According to Donald F. Cawley, Commander, Inspections Division, testifying before the State Commission of Investigation (the Knapp Commission) "Police officers have been involved in activities such as extortion of money and or narcotics from narcotics violators in order to avoid arrest; they have accepted bribes; they have sold narcotics. They have known of narcotics violations and have failed to take proper enforcement action. They have entered into personal associations with narcotics criminals and in some cases have used narcotics. They have given false testimony in court in order to obtain dismissal of the charges against a defendant..." This was the 1970s. Twenty years later came the Mollen Commission, after the scandal involving Michael Dowd and his criminal cop cohorts. The Mollen Commission issued another report that showed nothing had changed in  those 20 years and the NYPD did not
implement the changes in policing suggested by the
Knapp Commission. Throughout the US, the scandals
just keep coming. LAPD, NYPD, Chicago PD, Detroit
PD, Baltimore PD, Miami PD- you name it, there is a
drug corruption scandal. These scandals and the harm
they do to the justice system will not stop until we
stop the criminalization of behavior that is better
suited to be handled as a medical issue when and if
the use of drugs becomes a crisis for the
individuals using those drugs. Adults can smoke and drink alcohol- both 'drugs' which have the potential to cause great harm to one's body including death. Until one drives a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or commits violence while drunk, drinking alcohol is a vice that is no longer prohibited and is left to the individual to decide when it is time to seek help. Smoking may be quite dangerous to one's health, and the loved ones of smokers frequently beg the smoker to quit. There are products available to help the smoker quit when they are ready. Both are treated as medical issues and not crimes, which makes it far easier to seek treatment when the smoker or alcoholic is ready to quit. Why not other drugs? How much evidence of the harm done to all of us by the "war on drugs" will be enough to convince society that it  is time to
rethink the wars on the citizens who choose to
engage in vices of which you do not approve-
which you may find morally reprehensible? Isn't
police corruption "morally reprehensible" to you?
How many bad cops/ prosecutors/ judges/ corrections
officers will it take to make you understand that
the wars on drugs, gambling and prostitution have
been serious failures and will NEVER be
'won'? For a continued list of these drug crimes commited by law enforcement agents, please visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/taxonomy/term/27 RESOURCES: http://www.drugpolicy.org/resource/law-enforcement-against-prohibition-leap https://lawenforcementactionpartnership.org |
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| The following are
but a few of the cops and drugs articles- as time
permits I will add the many, many more cases. Thanks
to John Wright for his assistance in collecting and
sorting these bad boys and girls! The cases presented here are but a few of the hundreds if not thousands of other similar cases but because they were not major scandals and occurred years ago, the original news stories cannot be found. I chose to leave out any case where I could not find the news story. As always, if you are one of these cases and you can prove that you were found not guilty, I will be happy to remove your name from this list. Please provide documentation of the disposition of your case and contact me through the "contact us" link. For a continued list of these drug crimes by law enforcement agents, please visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/taxonomy/term/27 |
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| COPS CHARGED
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COPS/ FORENSIC
STAFF WHO FABRICATE EVIDENCE IN DRUG BUSTS:
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COPS/ GOVERNMENT
AGENTS WHO GIVE DRUGS TO INFORMANTS OR TRADE DRUGS
FOR SEX OR TO SELL
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COPS/
PROSECUTORS/ JUDGES WHO COMMITTED MULTIPLE DRUG
OFFENSES
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| COPS WHO PLANT
DRUGS OR GIVE FALSE TESTIMONY AGAINST SOMEONE IN
DRUG CASES (THERE ARE MANY OF THESE, WILL BE
ADDING SOON) Suggested Reading: 2016
How Often Do Cops Plant Evidence? No One Knows
For Sure
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COPS WHO BOUGHT /POSSESSED/
USED/ STOLE DRUGS FOR PERSONAL USE
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COPS WHO STEAL /SELL OR
DISTRIBUTED DRUGS/ KILL COMPETITORS/ DRUG
TRAFFICKING/ ROB DRUG DEALERS/ EXTORT ETC./
ACCEPT BRIBES FROM DRUG DEALERS/ STEAL MONEY
FROM ASSET FORFEITURE FUNDS/ FALSE TESTIMONY IN
DRUG CASES
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CORRECTIONS
OFFICERS / JAILERS WHO SMUGGLE DRUGS INTO
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