Law enforcement gone bad

Media Awareness Project has a great newsletter this week. My favorite story is this little harbinger of hope on a DA's office in western North Carolina who sent a memo to the local law enforcement telling them they were going to "crack down" on which drug cases it will prosecute. They're only going to take the cases they think they might win and apparently there's a lot of shoddy police work going on out there.

"We have to cull 36 cases to try from approximately 200 Traffickers, 350 Sellers, 25 Habitual Felons, and the 2000+ defendants charged with possession."

And speaking of shoddy police work, in South Carolina a "police officer faces charges of swapping crack for sex and other illegal conduct over the past seven years following a State Law Enforcement Division investigation."

You read about it every day folks and it's a direct result of prohibition. Illegal drugs corrupt the cops more than the consumers.