DRUG USERS ARE HELPING DRIVE UP THE CRIME RATE

Two people have been arrested for the murder of Eric Leo, a Chicago
police officer, and maybe more to come, but who is really guilty? The
situation, as I understand it, was drug related. Who created this
situation? Every one of you out there who create the market for these
drug traffickers, each and every one of you who think you are just
socializing when you "do your drugs," you who think you are doing no
harm when you take that puff of marijuana. Think again. Someone got
you those drugs, and they broke the law while getting them and maybe,
just maybe, if someone was in their way at the time, they, too, may
have been killed.

I know you think this is melodramatic thinking, but more is spent on
illegal drugs every year than health care, education, welfare and
police protection combined. And the people in charge of
manufacturing, marketing and selling these drugs aren't about to let
anyone stand in the way of such a lucrative market. No one - not you,
not me, not the innocent children and certainly not the police. If
you want to take a bite out of crime, get off the drugs, that is if
you can.

Robert Wheat

Westchester