In 1971, President Nixon declared war on drugs and increased the presence of federal drug agencies. ... These stereotypes are a problem because law enforcement is only focusing on these communities and profiling people that possibly aren't doing anything. ... The U.S. drug laws have not been able to reduce drug use. ... People are criminalizing drugs because they think the drugs are harming communities, but people end up inflicting more pain than drugs themselves. ... The war on drugs in America aimed to eliminate drug abuse through strict laws and tough enforcement within the U.S. boarde...

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Also, The Anti-Drug AbuseAct of 1988 calls for the death penalty for all drug related killings. ... The death penalty was enforced 45 times. ... In 1995 Hart Research Associated Poll asked law enforcement officers what they thought would help the deteration of crime. 31% said reduce drug abuse; 17% said better economy and jobs; 16% simplify court rules; 15% longer prison sentence; 10% more police officers; 3% reducing guns; and 1% expand death penalty. ... The only way to deter crime is to prevent it from happening, rather then enforce harsh punishment to "scare" off potential crimes. ... ...

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Four out of five inmates enter prison with alcohol, drug, and emotional problems. ... Granted they are paying for their crime, but that is not helping them stay clean from drugs and alcohol when they get out. ... Everyone knows that drugs and alcohol alter the way we think. ... The Fourteenth amendment enforces that no person be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process. It also enforces that there is equal protection of law for everyone. ...

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s were pulling in millions of dollars a week by selling drugs in their controlled areas. ... At the bottom of the organization are the "enforcers" and the "shorties." Enforcers are the ones who issue out fines and "violations." ... Shorties execute drug deals and guard gang territory. ... He claims that his gang has gone straight and ended the days of violence and drug trafficking. ...

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William Otis, the counsellor to the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, wrote an article in 2006 by the name "Death Penalty Saves Lives", where he discusses the death penalty in the United States. ... He has a good use of all three appeal forms, pathos because of the story at the beginning, logos comes to view by the use of statistics and ethos because he is counsellor of the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S Department of Justice. ...

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The author believes that there are exceptions to some cases in which zero tolerance policies enforce. ... He believes that the president has stripped all rights from the criminal by enforcing laws which mandate mandatory sentences to certain offenses. Even the "piddling crimes" (of no worth) are being slapped with sentences that are outrageous because they are simply related with the use of drugs or violence or associated with whatever offense offers the greatest time in the slammer. ...

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In Arkansas you must kill someone with arson, kill a law enforcement officer on purpose, a teacher or school worker, kill a prison worker, a jail attendant, correctional worker, or someone who is in the military. ... In Connecticut "murder of a public safety or correctional officer, murder for pecuniary gain; murder in the case of a felony; murder by a defendant with a previous conviction for intentional murder; murder while under a life sentence; murder during kidnapping; illegal sale of cocaine, methadone, or heroin to a person who dies from using these drugs; murder during firs...

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They have an established hierarchy including a president, vice president, recruiter, secretary, sergeant of arms, and enforcer. ... "White drug addicts tended to join together in order to pool their funds to buy drugs at a volume discount" (Hassine, 63). ...

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Sherry Atkinson Dr. Bunce English 1123/18 03/06/03 Crime and punishment An issue that has continually created tension in today's society is whether the death penalty serves as a justified and valid form of punishment. Whenever the word "death penalty" comes up, extremists from both sides...

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How ironic it is that in such a climate, our nation's top law enforcement official, Attorney General John Ashcroft, keeps pushing for the death penalty in federal cases, often overriding the recommendations of his local federal prosecutors - despite the fact that, as of this writing, jurors in 20 of the last 21 federal capital trials have refused to return death verdicts. ...

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Are Prison Reforming or Not! In a world where political correctness often whitewashes the darker side of reality, we have soft alternatives for the bleak word "prison."" We prefer "penitentiary- or "correctional facility,"" where "vocational training- and "social services- are provided. We even fa...

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Perhaps this is the intended goal of the Violent Crime Control And Law Enforcement Act of 1994. ... New capital offenses include the murder of a federal prisoner serving a life sentence, and drive by shootings in the course of certain drug offenses" (Internet 3/8/95). ...

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A great number of people would argue that there are very few things, which our American society holds dear. However, after the events on September eleventh just over a year ago, it became abundantly clear that the one thing we revere the most is our freedom and ability to choose in a democratically based republic. It is this ability to choose, and the mutual respect of other people's right to choose based in their own beliefs which makes picking and finding one single, moral, and ethical law to govern any situation a difficult task. Too often people see morality and ethics as a clear c...

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