Or at least turn down the volume on its new-found bullhorn to legalize pot. Later on Friday, Mr. Kerlikowske was interviewed on KCTS…. The reason why they have been saying the war on drugs is overy is because they know they lost it.
They know pepply are tird of there lies. And any one that suport cannabis probiton is resbl for all the vilont this probitions brings. Obama's choice of Kerlikowske and an increased emphasis on alternative drug courts signal a sharp departure from Bush administration policies, from cutting the foreign supply to curbing U. Kerlikowske, a year law enforcement veteran, has been Seattle chief for nearly nine years. Lucie — and was police commissioner in Buffalo, N.
He served in the Clinton administration as deputy director of the Justice Department office that promotes community policing. He is president of Major Cities Police Chiefs Association, which represents the 56 largest law enforcement agencies in the country. Obviously his focus is in the law-enforcement arena, but he clearly understands the need for a healthy community and that that means more that just law enforcement — it needs to include other parts of the system, including chemical-dependency treatment.
Kerlikowske is better known for his work on gun control than drug control, but has worked with local drug courts and recently backed a Seattle program that allows police officers to divert drug users to treatment or job programs rather than jail. He has been honored for his work in preventing youth crime and violence, and chairs the board of directors at Fight Crime: Invest in Kids , a law-enforcement group that supports effective youth crime-prevention efforts.
Washington State Rep. There is no coherent strategy. Enforcement, prevention, and treatment are the names of three quarrelling constituency groups whose pressures you will sometimes need to resist and whose dearly-held beliefs you must be ready to challenge. The biggest prevention program, D. There are useful things to be done in all three categories, but resist the temptation to just keep feeding the beast more resources.
We're not fighting a war, you don't have czar-like powers, and the last actual czar who fought an actual war got clobbered. You're stuck with the title. But don't get sucked in to the rhetoric of "'enemies"' and "'victory. There are some real "'drug wars"' raging: in Afghanistan, in Colombia, and in northern Mexico. Those wars matter terribly to the countries involved, but no outcome of those wars is likely to make the drug situation in the United States noticeably better or worse.
We can't solve our drug problem in other countries; the drug traffic adapts, and will find new sources of supply and smuggling routes as long as there are U. Reducing the drug trade's contribution to the carnage is more important than reducing the flow of drugs. Tell the Afghan and Mexican governments to pick whatever strategies they think will best protect their citizens and defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan and the violent drug gangs in Mexico, whether or not those strategies include eradicating crops or extraditing dealers.
We can help by shrinking our domestic markets. Offenders under criminal justice supervision account for half of all hard-drug consumption. Hawaii's Judge Steven Alm has shown that frequent testing and swift, automatic, but relatively mild sanctions can sharply reduce methamphetamine use among probationers.
This is a cheap solution that also actually shrinks the population behind bars by reducing both probation revocations and arrests for new crimes. But it works only if the authorities can organize themselves to deliver the sanctions. Carefully adapted to local conditions, testing-and-sanctions can be extended nationwide, to every probationer and parolee, and everyone released on bail, who has an illicit-drug problem. The current practice of forcing large numbers of drug users into treatment, with incarceration as the alternative, wastes resources.
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