The War on Drugs

We're locking up black people in a way that makes south africa under a parthide look like nothing. Oftentimes people say, you know, follow the money, and that'll explain the drug war. But actually, the most venal element of the war on drugs has oftentimes been the prosecutors,. The district attorneys write the federal and state and local prosecutors. That's not about money. That's about power. Law enforcement is not to keep art of the solution. And so larry crasner has very bravely been doing this in philadelphia, and i was delighted, cause a lot of these progress progressive prosecutors, when they start moving forward, could get elected