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Re: Re: The Continuing Abuse of Zero Tolerance policy

Why is it that everytime someone challenges the statements by others on this board he is immediately attacked as a "troll" or some other unwholesome thing?

If you disagree with what I'm saying then argue your point and tell me why I'm wrong and back it up with evidence. And if you can't find anything to pick apart -- then there is the great possibility that I am right.

I actually have a great deal of experience both as a person who has been profiled by police and as an individual working with law enforcement. I understand both sides of the coin and appreciate the varied points of view involved. The police are there to serve and protect and they have been instilled with this power and authority by the government and the community from which they serve. It is a concern of all people the rampant use of drugs -- and the violence that begets a drug-infested community. We the community have asked the police to take action, hire more officers and work overtime in order to instill our community with a sense of peace -- by ridding our neighborhoods of drug dealers, drug users and other criminals.

And the proof is in the pudding. Our communities our safer and violence is subsiding. All of this is a result of operation zero tolerance and the work of our police department.
 

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Re: Re: Re: The Continuing Abuse of Zero Tolerance policy

At what cost, Andrew? It's putting an incredible burden on the legal system and public defenders, it's criminalizing people in their own neighborhoods where zero tolerance focuses, it's wasting millions of dollars that go to police and the prison-industrial-complex rather than rehabilitation or economic re-distribution, and it potentially violates the civil rights of individuals--not to mention making cops more aggressive and brutal.

I'd be curious if you felt the cops in NYC were justified in pumping an unarmed, man of color--Sean Bell--full of bullets?

I get the impression you'd be happy to live in an absolute police state, huh. Oh, wait...!
 

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