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More than 60 Percent of Males Arrested in 2011 Used Drugs, Federal Survey Shows | CNSNews.com
The feds say 60% of male criminals are on drugs, in an obvious attempt to justify the war on drugs, despite widespread opposition to it. The report includes Marijuana, a drug that stays in your system for up to 30 days, and which is legal in some (16) states. Obviously there are flaws in their logic, and they didn't even account for alcohol, presumably because it isn't as evil as "drugs" like marijuana.
But the thing I want to discuss is HOW the police make arrests. Do they patrol looking for crime, and then stop the criminals in the act? Very, very rarely would someone commit a crime when a cop is visible, so that doesn't happen much. But I know what does happen A LOT--police stop cars for "speeding" (more likely for some sort of profiling--I used to have long hair, so I know how they operate), and then perform search and seizures, specifically looking for drugs. This is how cops make most arrests I'm sure. They can't catch someone in the act of crime that involves a victim, so they spend their time carrying out the war on drugs, by harassing and detaining innocent citizens.
So it is no surprise that more than half of the men they arrest are using drugs, because that is who they police are trained to seek out. They can't find evidence of a real crime unless it already happened, but the one bit of evidence that police can find reliably is drugs. I'm sure the police feel good about their (illegal?) search and seizures, because they assume every drug user is a current or future felon.
A second argument I'll bring up, is that it is human nature to seek pleasures of the mind with plants and drugs, especially in the college years for men. Not coincidentally, more testosterone driven young men are probably arrested for misbehaving, unrelated to their drug usage. It should be considered then that it is possible that half of the entire male population from the ages of 18-24 are "on drugs". So what we have is a penal system that fails to acknowledge the nature of man, and is arresting America's youth en masse based on the philosophy of the war on drugs, which makes a false presumption, and self fulfilling prophecy, that all drugs are a sign or symptom of crime (which is only true when you make drug users criminals).
The feds say 60% of male criminals are on drugs, in an obvious attempt to justify the war on drugs, despite widespread opposition to it. The report includes Marijuana, a drug that stays in your system for up to 30 days, and which is legal in some (16) states. Obviously there are flaws in their logic, and they didn't even account for alcohol, presumably because it isn't as evil as "drugs" like marijuana.
But the thing I want to discuss is HOW the police make arrests. Do they patrol looking for crime, and then stop the criminals in the act? Very, very rarely would someone commit a crime when a cop is visible, so that doesn't happen much. But I know what does happen A LOT--police stop cars for "speeding" (more likely for some sort of profiling--I used to have long hair, so I know how they operate), and then perform search and seizures, specifically looking for drugs. This is how cops make most arrests I'm sure. They can't catch someone in the act of crime that involves a victim, so they spend their time carrying out the war on drugs, by harassing and detaining innocent citizens.
So it is no surprise that more than half of the men they arrest are using drugs, because that is who they police are trained to seek out. They can't find evidence of a real crime unless it already happened, but the one bit of evidence that police can find reliably is drugs. I'm sure the police feel good about their (illegal?) search and seizures, because they assume every drug user is a current or future felon.
A second argument I'll bring up, is that it is human nature to seek pleasures of the mind with plants and drugs, especially in the college years for men. Not coincidentally, more testosterone driven young men are probably arrested for misbehaving, unrelated to their drug usage. It should be considered then that it is possible that half of the entire male population from the ages of 18-24 are "on drugs". So what we have is a penal system that fails to acknowledge the nature of man, and is arresting America's youth en masse based on the philosophy of the war on drugs, which makes a false presumption, and self fulfilling prophecy, that all drugs are a sign or symptom of crime (which is only true when you make drug users criminals).
