The Failure Of The War On Drugs
The war on drugs is a complete failure. When connecting drugs to crime the relationship is complex. Many different reasons can be the cause of addiction, selling drugs, drug users and the creation of war on drugs. The criminal justice approach only created a deep depression over minority communities. The war on drugs created a vicious ongoing cycle that minorities, especially American Americans cannot not escape. Michelle Alexander suggested the war on drugs is similar to Jim Crow laws. The war on drugs is a way to systematically control a race and legit destroy them. The war on drugs was supposedly to stop the drug problem in the nation but it failed. Instead it back fired and basically tried to wipe out a race. Among poor African Americans the war on drugs became their own personal lifestyle. The idea of actually getting rid of drugs is very problematic. Drugs were a survival game for minorities more than a national problem. Drugs laws only destroyed minority communities. The war on Drugs approach the government decided to take to fix society was a miserable failure. War on drugs crated human failure. Everyone started to become victims of unnecessary drug policies, even the police. Police officers policing changed from trying to get rid of drugs to abusing drug-Abuse arrest. This notion constructed stereotypical factors about who sold drugs
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because the police were targeting certain groups. There is no racial different from African Americans and Whites when it comes to using drugs. If you want to use a concrete example, White youth sells more drugs than African American youth. By the war on drugs being only fought in primality black communities, the target will only be African Americans and not Whites. The war on drugs reflect more on racial disparity and racial discrimination.
` The failure of the war on drugs approach increased terribly when policies and procedures provided incentives for law enforcement to arrest those selling drugs and using drugs.
Drugs itself would not have destroyed a community so easily like policy and procedure have. The drugs that did not ruin a community, the war against them has. Mandatory minimum sentencing statutes allowed the war on drugs to increase incarceration and continue to fail. By judges being required to impose sentencing based on legal factors and extra-legal factors are unfair. This allowed life sentencing to be unjust and prison to be
overcrowding. The war on drugs was designed to racially control a group. African Americans were controlled by the drug gained because it had the power to make them or break them. They understood the consequences of using drugs and dealing drugs but it become something they were accustomed to. The powerful affect drugs have over their lives and neighborhood place a burden over them. The war on drugs targeted them and set them at a disadvantage. The odds stacked high against all black who had to struggle and sell drugs to survive. The war on drugs did not just fail it ruined many of lives and communities. After a while the world will realize the war on drugs should be looked at on a different perspective. The complex relationship between drugs and crime should have warned the world locking everyone up who used or sold was not going to solve the problem. The laws need to be more reasonable when it comes to drug offenses. Generations are still being destroyed due to this failure of war on drugs. The government need to look at the social context and understand selling drugs is not a war but a lifestyle.
because the police were targeting certain groups. There is no racial different from African Americans and Whites when it comes to using drugs. If you want to use a concrete example, White youth sells more drugs than African American youth. By the war on drugs being only fought in primality black communities, the target will only be African Americans and not Whites. The war on drugs reflect more on racial disparity and racial discrimination.
` The failure of the war on drugs approach increased terribly when policies and procedures provided incentives for law enforcement to arrest those selling drugs and using drugs.
Drugs itself would not have destroyed a community so easily like policy and procedure have. The drugs that did not ruin a community, the war against them has. Mandatory minimum sentencing statutes allowed the war on drugs to increase incarceration and continue to fail. By judges being required to impose sentencing based on legal factors and extra-legal factors are unfair. This allowed life sentencing to be unjust and prison to be
overcrowding. The war on drugs was designed to racially control a group. African Americans were controlled by the drug gained because it had the power to make them or break them. They understood the consequences of using drugs and dealing drugs but it become something they were accustomed to. The powerful affect drugs have over their lives and neighborhood place a burden over them. The war on drugs targeted them and set them at a disadvantage. The odds stacked high against all black who had to struggle and sell drugs to survive. The war on drugs did not just fail it ruined many of lives and communities. After a while the world will realize the war on drugs should be looked at on a different perspective. The complex relationship between drugs and crime should have warned the world locking everyone up who used or sold was not going to solve the problem. The laws need to be more reasonable when it comes to drug offenses. Generations are still being destroyed due to this failure of war on drugs. The government need to look at the social context and understand selling drugs is not a war but a lifestyle.