I'm not sure that we will see the same thing here given what we have said with regard to our enforcement priorities.... The statement has been made for several years, by groups ranging from law enforcement to political, that our local, state, and federal prisons are running out of room because of the number of people incarcerated for drug-related offenses. ... A number of advocates for legalization have suggested that the workload on local law enforcement would ease if marijuana were legal. ... The advocates claim that the workload on local law enforcement will be lessened if marijuana w...

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Many police authorities use racial profiling as a tool to pick up anyone they suspect is carrying arms and/or drugs. Since the onset of the "war on drugs" in the mid-1980s, Black Americans have been arrested, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned for drug law offences at rates grossly out of proportion to their numbers among drug offenders. Although drug use and selling cut across all racial, socioeconomic and geographic lines, law enforcement strategies have targeted street-level drug dealers and users from low-income, predominantly minority urban areas. ... Increasingly the police are seen by...

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Machiavelli disqualifies any interference from private citizens in enforcing the rule of law because of the notion that the citizen, given the opportunity, will act with malignity in pursuit of his self-interests. Another untoward consequence if the private citizen was allowed to enforce the rule of law would be tantamount to an admission of inadequacy on the part of the state to administer justice among its citizens. ...

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