Wanna know what is really taking cops lives? It isn't the drug dealing in an of itself. It is the people that finance it. Drugging and junkies that rob people at gunpoint, slice innocent people up, shoot their way out of trouble and, if they get arrested, serve less than a year in a minimum security prison because they are minors. It isn't the disease that is bad. It's the symptoms. And extreme measures to get rid of the disease is the fastest way to get rid of the symptoms.
The Drug dealers already have military Grade weapons (here in Brazil, anyways). People walk around the cities in fear of when their gonna be held up by two 15-year-olds holding Uzis and obviously high. Cops that aren't allowed to carry weapons when off duty are being gunned down in the streets. I am not saying throw more money into it. I am saying take more extreme measures, because the slight measures are obviously not working. If movies and TV series stop making heroes out of the people that deal drugs, it would be better too. Show Walter White, for instance, the way that they show terrorists in the movies.
Maybe declaring it to be an act of terrorism is a bit extreme, but our light measures now obviously aren't working.
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