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socrateez
Stoned Philosopher
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 Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:50 am Post subject: Drug Task Forces |
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I was perusing a blog regarding the funding cuts from the feds to tasks forces. Thereby shutting many down OR resorting to more seizure oriented income. THe reader comments were from mainly soon to be ex task force members and citizens. The comments ran the typical from no more task force = more crack babies and less police to catch real crook. To this one from a claimed 20 year veteran task force supervisor. His response was surprising as I assumed it be like the other task force posters. Here is the linkt to the blog (its a few years old but quite relevant)
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2005/10/mclennan-county-snuffs-agriplex-task.html That site is specifically oriented at examining the justice system in texas.
Heres the reader response I mentioned:
| Quote: | Drug Task Forces
Anyone who thinks that this is a liberal or conservative agenda needs to look at the 10 postings on this blog to see it's neither.
The cops think drug task forces are effective, prevent crime, and provide rural communities with some level of drug enforcement. Not a bad thought.
Then there are those that oppose drug task forces. Opponents think they are the byproduct of a failed strategy and jails are filling up with users and addicts. Also not a bad thought.
I am a former drug task force supervisor and I did it for over 20 years. I think that qualifies me to make a comment which I would consider neither conservative nor liberal.
Cooperation in law enforcement is essential but police should cooperate when it's necessary then return to their departments that have control over them and what they do. The control is for their own protection and it's a day to day reminder they're police officers who protect and serve.
Having said that, Drug Task Forces have absolutely no accountabiity, oversight or control. They aren't effective and the whole concept the way it is today needs to be reformed.
Anyone who disagrees is more proud of what they did than how they did it.
Overall, Drug Task Forces produce large volumes of low level statistics while drug purities, drug availabilities, and drug overdoses continue to rise. That’s a liberal, conservative, and legitimate concern.
It's a national problem not just a Texas or a Byrne Grant problem and other Tulia like scandals are right around the corner.
This monster is statistically driven and the good drivers are riding in the same vehicle as the bad ones.
Read a few DEA press releases and you'll see phrases like "partnerships", "coalitions", "working together", "mutual cooperation". There's a playbook of patented phrases out there and those newspaper phrases are by design.
Folks, those lines and levels in drug law enforcement are currently blurred by the task force concept and that’s what’s feeding that out of control monster.
10/22/2005 10:34:00 AM |
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