Comments on: A police chief on the verge

By: dmac

dmac — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:33:42 +0000

There's a very good post on the SF Weekly's blog related to this.

By: Raymond Buse

Raymond Buse — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:27:18 +0000

“A lot of that went away” after alcohol was re-legalized.

Shouldn’t he have said, “ALL of that went away…”?

Just asking

By: paul

paul — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:45:11 +0000

It’s San Francisco. They voted 80% in favor of medical MJ. Everyone around him thinks it should be legal. At some point, numbers like that finally sink into politician’s heads and they see the light.

If he wants to keep his job, it would be stupid to directly challenge and insult the public with drug war lies.

By: kaptinemo

kaptinemo — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:38:00 +0000

The inescapable realization is approaching, and it’s nothing the ‘drug worriers’, as DdC calls them, can avoid.

The time is fast approaching when it becomes obvious to the dimmest bulb in the public’s box that the DrugWar is a financial drain that can no longer be supported. Trying to ‘crack down’ on illicit drug producers has always been a game of slashing at Hydra heads: cut one off, and two, three, four or more grow back. Meanwhile the treasury bleeds red ink while the growers laugh all the way to the bank.

So, I am not surprised some sitting police chief has publicly stated the screamingly obvious. Somebody had to start…

By: Osborne Perry Anderson

Osborne Perry Anderson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:58:25 +0000

Hard to tell? Guess it’s a crack but certainly there’s tons of information on why prohibition doesn’t work… just pick up any libertarian rag and keep following the alcohol analogy… including parity between home brewing & home growing… don’t want to wait 40 yrs like the homebrewers did… let’s get it right the first time. Parity with alcohol is a great place to be compared to where we’ve been. Cops tend to be ’slightly’ to ‘hard right’ republican which gave up defending our founders principles of personal liberty and freedom a long time ago in favor of moral opinions & control. But you don’t need me to tell you what’s wrong with the drug war. Perhaps the chief could benefit from reading Norm Stampers book ‘Breaking Rank’… I did. The chief might have to wait and see how many knives are in his back by the end of tomorrow? Good luck and thanks LEAP. Curious how LEAP feels about former fellow narcotics officer Barry Cooper over at nevergetbusted and kopbusters? He’s thinking about running for texas attorney general… would they help a former LEA brother out… do they have clout in texas where everything including the crime can seem bigger? I’ve bounced the idea off Jim Hightower on facebook [waiting to hear back?] because he’s texan and hates the ’sick neanderthal…… drug war” too. Free Yolanda Madden!

By: R.O.E.

R.O.E. — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:30:11 +0000

LOL no comment needed here lol.