WASHINGTON –The Metropolitan Police Department is revising its strategy on the war on drugs by changing officers’ attire and focusing on suppliers instead of street corner buyers.
The department’s current drug strategy often involves police officers in plain clothes, instead of uniforms, attempting to make arrests on the city’s streets. Open air sales have long been the target of the District’s drug enforcement, but D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier says that will come to an end soon, The Washington Post reports.
“Our main goal is the supply. We don’t want to focus police efforts on just people who are addicted. We want to be focusing on the people who are bringing the stuff in,” Lanier told the Post.
Along with the the policy shift comes a change in uniform.
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OK. Ok. Let me get this straight. Their main objective wasn't the suppliers? Wow! I wonder if the prison system there is privately owned? It would make sense. Something to think about.
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ReplyDelete3:26AM you've nailed it. Our government is the true supplier and not just the CIA either. Drug trafficing permeates our federal government as well as our military.
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