The P-I reports on arrests in Pike-Pine. A Honduran gang apparently was bringing people here illegally to sell crack. Scary stuff, and I’m glad the police are on it. Still, these arrests don’t ever seem to do much to deter the next group of people selling on the street corner. I’m not sure what the solution is, but I’m quite certain it isn’t more of the same.
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Four more years of Obama immigration reform and it won’t be illegal to bring Hondurans in to sell crack. /sarc
Maybe if we asked really nicely the Honduran gang members would “self deport.”
Illegal immigration’s down under Bush and Obama. Bush upped the number of Border Patrol agents, Obama kept the # high and went after employers that hired illegals. Right now more are leaving than coming in.
But there’s also this: http://tinyurl.com/82p96ql
which probably is responsible for a good bit of the shrinking numbers.
As far as the drug war stuff goes, it would be a real mess if the police stopped enforcing the law and didn’t arrest gang members that are selling crack. It can’t just be a law enforcement issue, but there’s a law enforcement roll in it.
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Wow, good link. Never would have thought of that. Thanks.
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I think Geopolitics are going to be coming back into play in a big way over the next 20 years. Things like demographics, climate, geography, and access to natural resources (water much more so than oil) are going to be what’s driving the bus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopolitics
I suspect that mature and experienced police officers know tha this is a revolving door. They build a case, make an arrest, the suspect makes bail quickly, and is back on the street the next day. When his trial date approaches, he dissapears, replaced by another.
The profits are just to great, and if you are a believer in Adam Smith’s invisible hand, the rewards will encourage risk-taking, even at the risk of incarceration. The more police interdict illegal drugs, the fewer the drugs available, the higher the street price, thereby encouraging more to enter the market.
So unless we are willing to make a pretty horrendous example of all those convicted (a quick trial, followed by public torture in the public square, followed by a horrendous death), we’ve got to come up with some new strategies. Treatment is one. Another is taking pot out of the equation, because it’s just not an equivilent, and it’s profits help support the infrastructure for the sale of more dangerous drugs.