I'm not surprised that policy worked well in the Portugal of 20 years ago. Portugal was and still is to an extend very peaceful4 with an homogenous population a

I'm not surprised that policy worked well in the Portugal of 20 years ago. Portugal was and still is to an extend very peaceful4 with an homogenous population and traditional values. Still today people leave their houses and cars opened in the countryside. As their society aligned with the rest of Western Europe in the last 20 years drugs use came back up, no surprise there. Also cutting the funding during the financial crisis did not help, I believe that. Now believing that you could replicate what was done in the Portugal of 20 years ago in LA or any place where society have long disintegrate is ludacris. No matter how much money you put in it.