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"Just keep grinnin' - We're winnin'!": Prosecutors debate the drug war

Texas prosecutors on a comment string titled "Just keep grinnin' - We're winnnin'!" have been engaged in one of the more frank discussions I've seen among working law enforcement types about the efficacy of the war on drugs. The string was begun with just a couple of comments in 2004, but then updated recently (new comments bring a thread up to the top of their user system) when Mexico acted recently to decriminalize small amounts of drugs.Unsurprisingly, some prosecutors see Mexico's actions as waving a "white flag"; one of them suggesting that "this is a poor tribute to the hundreds of Mexican police and army members who have lost their lives in the fight to save their country."But I was more interested to read the earliest comment on the sting from a Tarrant County prosecutor writing five years ago who lamented:Sometimes it happens this way: I'm scratching out a plea on a case or revocation of one more dope defendant and the fear takes me...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 28, 2009 (boomark / email).