LEGALIZING ILLICIT DRUGS WILL WIPE OUT CRIME

To the Editor,

Re: Hells Angels arrests keep cops on alert (July 28).

Are there more steadfast, more helpful friends of the police, the
politicians and the media than organized crime?

If there were no criminal gangs, how would the police be able to justify
their huge budgets, how would politicians promise the slay the dragon of
organized crime and what would newspapers like yourself find to write about?

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if organized crime were a co-operative
make-work project of the federal government, cops and newspaper publishers.

If drugs and prostitution were legal, which they should be, the Hells
Angels and their ilk would disappear.

Alan Randell, via e-mail