Two-thirds of drug diversion participants successfully complete participation and are not locked up in jail using scarce tax dollars while they continue to be productive tax paying members of society.
It all depends on how you look at it.
I look at it as two-thirds of my tax dollars helping other taxpayers stay out of jail and lowering my tax burden.
@2, EXACTLY! If they were just arrested, which I generally don't even have a big problem with as far as dealers go, these guys would be in the 80% recidivist statistic and on the path to a long life of doing crimes and doing time.
If we can divert 20% from a life of crime and punishment I'd say we're doing fine with the program.
lots of people drink, it's not a crime, or they watch too much tv.
many get obsessed with sports and wreck their own economy and lives paying ridiculous amounts for sports tickets, watching sports all the time, this kills their initiative, and brains.
i am amazed that people still think that any attempt to control supply will actually do anything to fundamentally change the situation... if people want drugs someone will supply them. Going after the supply side is a waste of time, which of course means legalization with regulation and, of course, taxation, is the only reasonable response, and always has been.
@2 - the only problem is that the program is only two weeks old. A 33% rearrest rate in such a short amount of time does not bode well.
I commend the effort and hope to see it succeed. The "buy-bust" model has not worked. Arresting people and convicting them at trial is the easy solution. Unfortunately it is not really a solution at all....
Those guys should have gone to Hempfest to hide.
Then no one would have touched them.
Two-thirds of drug diversion participants successfully complete participation and are not locked up in jail using scarce tax dollars while they continue to be productive tax paying members of society.
It all depends on how you look at it.
I look at it as two-thirds of my tax dollars helping other taxpayers stay out of jail and lowering my tax burden.
If we can divert 20% from a life of crime and punishment I'd say we're doing fine with the program.
lots of people drink, it's not a crime, or they watch too much tv.
many get obsessed with sports and wreck their own economy and lives paying ridiculous amounts for sports tickets, watching sports all the time, this kills their initiative, and brains.
Let 'em all be.
I commend the effort and hope to see it succeed. The "buy-bust" model has not worked. Arresting people and convicting them at trial is the easy solution. Unfortunately it is not really a solution at all....
Hello ... can you say cutbacks?