NEW FBI REPORT: DRUG ARREST EVERY 19 SECONDS IN THE US

[Lions_fan]

by W. E. Messamore
Tue, Sep 20th 2011
A new FBI report released Monday is brimming with startling figures about the four-decades-old War on Drugs. Shockingly, in the United States, there is a drug arrest every 19 seconds, making for a total of 1.6 million drug arrests in 2010 alone.

The FBI report also includes data which show that 81.9% of all drug-related arrests in 2010 were for simple possession, not drug dealing, and 45.8% of all drug-related arrests were for possession of marijuana. This indicates that the vast majority of police work and resources in the War on Drugs are being focused on users of illegal drugs, not the people who sell them. With nearly half of all drug-related arrests resulting from possession of marijuana, a drug that many Americans believe should be legal, the FBI's report calls into question just how effective and efficient the federal government has been in waging its war on drugs.

http://caivn.org/article/2011/09/20/new-fbi-report-drug-arrest-every-19-seconds-us

[Blue Owl]

1. Ah the good ol' war on some drugs

What a freakin' crock.

[drokhole]

2. Wow, business is booming!

:puke:

This does a phenomenal job at expressing how I feel on the matter:

Drug Abuse Law & Sin ∞ Alan Watts (1/5)
(be sure to check out parts 2-5)

[movingviolation]

6. love me some alan watts

Kpfk plays his old lectures every thursday at midnight.

[drokhole]

7. That's awesome!

I'm gonna see if I'll be able to hear it online. Thanks for the heads up!

Edit: Just saw they have Jiddu Krishnamurti on the schedule, too. It just keeps getting better!

[Mnemosyne]

3. Disgusting. K&R n/t

[Gari]

4. 1.6 million arrests per year?

Check my math, is this right?

60 sec per min X 60 min per hour X 24 hours per day = 86400 seconds per day divided by 19 arrests per second = 4547 arrests per day X 365 = 1,659,655 arrest per year.

Wow.

[pscot]

5. Almost 3/4 million pot busts a year

No wonder we need so many cops

[Enthusiast]

8. Just imagine if this law enforcement

effort was directed toward Wall Street and corporate malfeasance.

[Uncle Joe]

9. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Lions_fan.