The Failure of the War on Drugs

The drug war in the United States had a great influence on the retention rate and activity of the criminal justice system. Many politicians and policy advocates assert that drug war is a necessary element to stop crime and lower crime rate. However, studies have shown that anti-drug policies on ownership and use are inadequate and unsuccessful (Cole & Gertz, 2013). The study also showed that narcotics war did not achieve its purpose as it showed racial differences as it led to disproportionate imprisonment for blacks and minorities.

Discussions on the impact of drug war on violent crime may continue. However, there is no discussion about the drug war that failed to alleviate the drug problem. Currently, an average of 78 Americans die every day due to overdose of prescribed opioids. The outbreak of the American prescription drug epidemic reveals the core hypocrisy of the drug war - as long as you buy your change agent from the government it is no problem changing your consciousness. The less pure political motivation behind the drug war is largely unrelated to public health and security, and includes personal hatred, maintenance of business interests, a sense of profitability, undoubted labor and general There is a connection with the promotion of people's consciousness. One of the major tragedies of modernization is that millions of citizens and their families continue to be traumatized and punished by using substances that the government considers unacceptable.

We all know what will happen next: "Narcotic War" that our current president called "complete failure" in 2004. Prior to the drug war, the American prison population was 150 prisoners, in 1980 it was about the same as every other 100,000 people - the other Western countries. "You will notice that the rise in crime rate is not part of the explanation A recent comprehensive report by the National Research Council is that between 1980 and 2010, crime trends or police efficiency The increase in prison sentences for the period of 30 years of change has hardly contributed, "Ghandnoosh said. The crime did not increase much, but the drug war and other factors changed, and made more people prison.

Please look at the opportunity for the whole crime problem. Narcotic warfare (which in some respects often comes to war against victims of substance abuse) is part of the general war against our crime, bigger war is a complete failure. In 1996 the National Criminal Justice Committee reported that since 1980, the population of prisons has tripled and the expenditures of law enforcement agencies have quadrupled. However, the crime rate has hardly changed, and fear has risen more than ever. Since then? The problem is getting worse. "Let's start with zero," criminal scholar Richard Quinney says in an important book called "Criminal Studies".