The “most significant drug importation conspiracies ever charged in Chicago” says the US Attorney. Federal authorities have disrupted a massive cocaine operation that was bringing 1,500 to 2,000 kilos of cocaine a month to Chicago from the most powerful drug traffickers in Mexico, in what law enforcement is calling the most significant drug conspiracy ever…
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In my gut I know that immigrants make neighborhoods safer (at least in this country). I also happen to live in and love a county where 46% of everybody is born in another country. That figure always amazes me… and when you consider the kids of immigrant parents, well, there’s just not too much else…
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Today was my third time on TV. I loveradio interviews. TV? I’m still not comfortable with it. Radio is kind of like real life. TV is a bizarre and totally different creature. In case you’re going on TV, here are a few things I wish somebody had told me before my first time. 1) Make…
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Stanford Franklin and I will be on MSNBC’s Conversations with Carlos Watson tomorrow, Wednesday. We’ll be talking about drug legalization and our op-ed. The show is from 11am-12 noon, Eastern Time. I think we’ll be on from 11:15 to 11:45. Check us out!
Here’s a good example: The Netherlands has about 120 drug overdose deaths per year. This is a rate of 0.75 per 100,000. Meanwhile the US, with all our money and prisons and police and people who wish to “send the right message” has this problem: The mortality rates from unintentional drug overdose (not including alcohol)…
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Buzzkill.
In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition So the birthers, the anti-tax tea-partiers, the town hall hecklers — these are “either” the genuine grass roots or evil conspirators staging scenes for YouTube? The quiver on the lips of the man pushing the wheelchair, the crazed risk of carrying a pistol around a president — too…
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The Washington Post has an op-ed written by me, Peter Moskos, and Stanford “Neill” Franklin. It’s Time to Legalize Drug Drug manufacturing and distribution is too dangerous to remain in the hands of unregulated criminals. Drug distribution needs to be the combined responsibility of doctors, the government, and a legal and regulated free market. This…
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Stanford “Neill” Franklin and I have an op-ed scheduled to run in Monday’s Washington Post. Needless to say, details will follow. Major Franklinwas the commanding officer at the Baltimore police academy when I graduated in 2000. Who would have thought, nine years later, we’d be writing newspaper pieces together? I don’t think we ever even…
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In Mexico, on the road between Merida and Campeche, you pass a large prison (filled with people from Mexico City, they say). Lining the highway are a dozen or so stores selling hammocks and other labor-intensive hand-crafted good. They’re made by prisoners. Why don’t we have this?