I would not be so sure about this From what I've seen, it happens at least a couple times a year. Once upon a time, Congress authorized a national excessive use of force tracking system. However, they stopped funding it after 2 years and have refused to fund it since then as far as I am aware. That makes it rather difficult to track these things nationally. Combine the known, reported, excessive use of force stories with the ridiculous forfeiture laws that most states have where your assets can be seized without conviction and I would say that it is not unreasonable to claim that someones life is ruined as a result of the drug war on as a common occurrence.
Judah On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:02 PM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: > > No, this is one very awful and unfortunate incident in a country of 300+ > Million people. I'm not supporting the drug war in it's current state....but > don't think that cops barging into houses and shooting the family pet is > anywhere near a common occurrence. > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/05/this-is-your-war-on-drugs/56380/ >> >> This is the neverending War on Drugs, the precursor to the neverending War >> on Terror. >> >> "This is our nation's drug enforcement in a nutshell. We started out by >> banning the things. And people kept taking them. So we made the >> punishments more draconian. But people kept selling them. So we pushed >> the >> markets deep into black market territory, and got the predictable violence >> . >> . . and then we upped our game, turning drug squads into quasi-paramilitary >> raiders. Somewhere along the way, we got so focused on enforcing the law >> that we lost sight of the purpose of the law, which is to make life in >> America *better*." >> >> All so someone can't smoke some grass,or snort some powder and get high >> like >> people have done for centuries. >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318189 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
