SILLY AND USELESS TO SPEND TAX DOLLARS ON THE WAR AGAINST DRUGS

Dear Editor,

As a Michigan police detective, I learned that every drug dealer
arrested or shot was replaced within days. My colleague, Bob Cooke, I
am sure has had the exact same experience.Thus, his lament on the cuts
in federal money to fund more arrests is ill-advised.

Every meth lab busted is quickly replaced either in California or
Mexico.Though fed money helps arrest drug dealers, it is the taxpayers
of California who must then foot the bill to keep them in prison for
decades, costing millions.

Of course everyone wants the "free" money from Washington.How can it
be wise federal policy to borrow a billion from China to give to local
police to arrest drug dealers who are replaced immediately?

Officer Howard J. Wooldridge (retired), Education Specialist, Law
Enforcement Against Prohibition (www.leap.cc), Washington, D.C.