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Anti-Drug Task Force Funding Leads to Police Corruption and Destruction of Lives

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Huffington Post Anthony Papa Anti-Drug Task Force Funding Leads to Police Corruption and Destruction of Lives Posted April 29, 2008 In early March, a federally-funded narcotics task force struggling to increase its fiscal support carried out a crime sweep in 41 states. The sweep resulted in 4,200 arrests, with police seizing large amounts of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine. Why a massive raid? Was it the aim of the task force to eliminate street narcotics in the name of a drug-free society? Nope. The cops were merely trying to protect their bottom line. The operation, called the "Byrne Blitz," was carried out, mostly, to show the importance of the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program. Byrne grants fund more than 4,000 police officers and prosecutors that support 750 drug enforcement task forces in 50 states...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).

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