This fairy tale about "non-violent drug crime" is interesting because it tries to get us to forget how many violent criminals are locked up THANKFULLY due to th

This fairy tale about "non-violent drug crime" is interesting because it tries to get us to forget how many violent criminals are locked up THANKFULLY due to the only charge that stuck to them, e.g. their 9th felony possession charge while armed with a loaded gun. People would have us all believe that these peaceful minorities are locked up because the cops stopped them on their way to church, found a little "medicine" on them and put them away for 20 years and left his kids orphaned. It's just nonsense. So many people get leniency in the cases of repeated drug offenses. Honestly, what is a society supposed to do with people who repeatedly break laws? In major cities a frightening number of homicides go unsolved. Though I can't say I'm a fan of the drug war, there is value in locking up criminals that just haven't been caught doing their most violent acts. Any time somebody brings up the non-violent drug imprisonment, and the socio-econmic downward spiral, yes it's true there are a small number of people who have been railroaded who could be raising their sons and daughters, but we also need the clear image of the killer who lucky for us got pinched because he made a different mistake. All the cops in the room know he killed his cousin but everyone in the project last year was too scared to rat him out. The prosecutor is going to push the longest sentence they can get for the laws broken just so that guy can't victimize somebody else's kid.