David Simon Quotes About War On Drugs

Quotes about: War On Drugs

• The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

  David Simon

  War, Holocaust, Drug

• If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.

  David Simon

  War, Class, Names

• The murder clearance rate now in my city Baltimore is almost non-existent. Nobody can solve a murder, nobody can do any actual police work, because they've learned how to do bad police work, chase drugs. Fighting vice, while being unable to respond to sin. Generations of cops have learned how not to police work by policing the drug war. Not only are they police brutal, they're ineffective. Baltimore is more violent than it has ever been in modern history.

  David Simon

  War, Fighting, Police

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he and Eric Holder did make some adjustments in terms of the use of the Department of Justice, on the federal level. You saw ratcheting back of drug prohibition, and mass incarceration. You also saw, on the part of some certain states, a realization that they followed the war on drugs to a useless place, that they were only doing damage to communities, and bankrupting budgets with prison construction.

  David Simon

  Meaningful, Country, War

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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