"I've been here two weeks," President Trump said of his administration before a gathering of the Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 8. "I've met a lot of law enforcement officials."
"Yesterday, I brought them into the Oval Office," he said. "I asked a group, what impact do drugs have in terms of a percentage on crime? They said, 75 to 80 percent. That's pretty sad."
"We're going to stop the drugs from pouring in," said the president. "We're going to stop those drugs from poisoning our youth, from poisoning our people. We're going to be ruthless in that fight. We have no choice."
As for the drug cartels that have operatives throughout the United States, President Trump said "we're going to take that fight to the drug cartels and work to liberate our communities from their terrible grip of violence.."
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I would like to know if other countries have this problem.
ReplyDeleteAbout to make the same mistake of every other president, treating drug abuse as a criminal issue rather than a health issue. Calling and treating like a "war" and passing tougher does nothing but target minorities and fill up the prisons and does nothing to address the addiction problem. If you lock up a junkies dealer they will only go to the next person. If Trump REALLY care about the drug problem, he would decriminalize drugs and refocus funds towards treating people rather than locking them up. This would allow private business to do research and provide safe drugs for people who want to get high and end the black market that the gangs control. Even Trump said that 75 to 80 of crimes are drug relate, that would end pretty quickly if they were no longer able to make a profit from them. Also, you can use police resources on more violent crimes.
ReplyDeleteBut we're not trying to find real solutions, just continue the same old "war on drugs" spill that we have been fighting since Nixon
Or maybe get the CIA out of the drug trade
DeleteLook at Portugal
ReplyDeleteIf we would actually do what we were supppsed to do in Afghanistan the poppy fields wouldn't have exploded into the numbers they are today and the heroine production wouldn't be as large. US involvement?????
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