Why can talk show people find drug dealers and cops can't stop them?
108063
An interesting question.  \n\nTalk shows find them because:\n\nA) It's not illegal to go on TV and admit to being a drug dealer.  Can't be arrested for it, can't be prosecuted for it, and certainly won't go to jail for it.  Plus..there's a bonus: you get paid for it.\n\nB) People who want to enjoy the benefits of the above might well claim to be a drug dealer when in fact they aren't currently dealing, or never did.  How many talk shows have been exposed in the past for questionable guests?\n\nC) As the other poster said, it's not like they're hard to find.  And once they've been found, there's really no reason for them to deny being a dealer to some talk show producer or staffer...it's not like the producer or staffer is going to arrest them, is it?\n\nD) Probably more, but it's silly to continue.  \n\nWhy can't cops find them?\n\n1) They can.  I've been a cop for 19 years now, and I have *never* seen someone in my jurisdiction get arrested for dealing where I didn't already know they were.  So you need to remember that there's a real difference between knowing who they are and where they are, versus being able to develop enough probable cause to arrest them.  Stop and think about all the things you *know* to be true in your heart, yet if you had to prove them true in a court of law, you could not.\n\n2) Drug dealers generally don't do their dealing in front of the police.  At least not in front of people they know or suspect to be the police.  Hard to know if the guy on the corner is a drug dealer, male prostitute, or dentist if all he's doing is standing there.  \n\n3)  Cops generally don't have the same kind of money and resources available to them like talk shows do, to locate drug dealers.  A cop can't walk up to someone on the corner, slip them a twenty, and tell them to point out the closest dealer.  \n\nAnd while it's true that the "big fish" are more attractive targets perhaps, nobody should assume that the police have no interest in street-level dealers.  It's those idiots who often rat out their suppliers...the bigger dealers and the manufacturers/distributors.  \n\nAnd no, the police can't find "them all" because the minute one dealer is arrested, two more step in to take his place.  Then, because we truly operate the finest justice system in the world, these guys dealing dope to your kids are often out of jail in less than a week.  You'd be a fool to believe that they stop dealing, just because they've been arrested and are waiting trial.
1069445
The problem is not with banning it. There are laws against it. The problem is in the enforcement. There are only so many cops to go around.
245183
A. Drug users need money, usually don't work (or can't, many employers won't hire a drug user) so they have to steal.\nB. Drugs make people do things they would normally wouldn't do, and make them more violent, so they could start a fight over nothing.\nC. Selling, buying and using drugs is illegal so it is a crime in it's self.
192103
The point is to get the 'criminal' to take sides. If the mean cop is really mean, it will make the criminal prefer to talk to the nice cop because he's being nice rather than get roughed up by the mean cop.\nIt's easier to confide in someone who supposedly has your back.
1016094
The best group to call is the State Police, corruption section.  They deal directly with this type of crime.  Outside of this the DEA has jurisdiction over drug cases in the U.S.  They would be very interested in this case and would seriously investigate and prosecute anyone involved.  Send them the proof that you have and they will act.
104968
That drug causes paranoia. When I used to do it, I would see and hear things that were not there, partially because I would be worried about getting caught, you always think the cops are right around the corner. If you've been up a few days, maybe you are suffering from sleep deprivation and are seeing things. If that's the case, please, just go to sleep.
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Police officers cannot work in a vacuum.  If they don't have the cooperation from citizens who give them information then it is very difficult to stop many criminals.  Why would you worry about getting arrested if you don't do anything against the law?  It is actually extremely easy to follow the law of the land.  I have lost track of the number of times that in my small town there were several people who knew exactly what was going on in the town in regards to who was doing B&Es but no one wants to get involved.  Police need information and there is no magic way of getting this.  \nAlso,  I spend a lot of time going to calls where people are complaining that their 6 year old is getting beat up by the neighbours 6 yr old or complaints that their neighbour is putting snow in their driveway.  Most police services are extremely understaffed, at least in my part of the world, and it takes many officers and lots of man hours to be effective against the crimes you mention.\nDo you know what the number one complaint I get from people when I meet them?  People speeding in their neighbourhoods.\n\nAs for arresting "good" people? I arrest people when I have reasonable and probable grounds to believe they have committed criminal offences.  Are some of them "good"? Yes I suppose some of them are.  But you can be a great citizen and neighbour and still hit your wife.
826520
no, drugs and thier dealers kill 100's,  the Police only use deadly force when forced,  so when they do, they are reacting to other deadly force.\n\nthey do a dangerous job, and using force is a requirement too often
253592
They aren't trying to stop them. They are encouraging them to grow more drugs. They put tarrifs on columbia that reduces the wage of farmers. Farmers are forced to resort to selling cocaine because it is more profitable. They cannot live off the US imposed sanctions. The US is doing this to get more drugs out of columbia. These drugs are seized and then shipped covertly into the US on military planes, then sold to America's children so they can be put into the jails owned by the same military complex.
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- Plant drugs on people\n\n- Convince you that you have to get out of the car or allow a search on a routine traffic stop. (You don't have to. However, if you refuse, they'll make you wish you had complied.)\n\n- Use unmarked cars for routine traffic stops. This is against the law. I have seen the code, and it prohibits this.\n\n- Arrest someone for a buddy. This happened in a small town: I know someone who was involved in road rage and police corruption all in one day. He accidentally pulled in front of someone. There was NO COLLISION. They chased him and ran him off the road. They yelled at him and said, "You probably don't even have insurance!" He DOES have insurance, but he was feeling feisty so he said, "Maybe I don't." The road rage guy then went to his small town buddies at the police station and lied, saying that my friend had done a "hit and run" on him and had no insurance. This was a lie, and ovbiously NEITHER vehicle was damaged! His small town police buddies ARRESTED my friend for a so called hit and run which never occurred!!!\n\n- I know someone who got a ticket for trying not to run into a police car. The cop was on the shoulder with his lights still on from having just finished making a traffic stop. The dude drove partially on the opposite side of the two way, two lane road, so as to give the cop room. The cop chased him and wrote him a ticket for driving on the wrong side of the road!\n\n- Drive on the wrong side of the road or violate other laws for reasons which are NOT emergencies. I saw a cop drive on the wrong side of the road just to talk to his buddy for a long, casual conversation.\n\n- Ride motorcycles side-by-side. The are supposed to ride straddled with the 2nd guy in behind and to the side so as not to run into one another. Many policemen run into each other this way and have been reprimanded for this by their superiors but continue to do as they please.\n\n-An old trick: When arresting someone on a traffic stop, they search them and take their wallet which they promptly toss into their car as it is about to be towed away. This means that the person doesn't have access to their ID or money while trying to post bail, check into jail, or retrieve their car from the pound!\n\n- They seduce someone into commiting a crime: There is someone drunk standing on private property. The police officer says, "Come here for a second..." and motion to them. The drunk person complies, walking OFF of the private property onto the sidewalk. They are now violating the public drunkeness law. They are promptly arrested, after being duped.\n\n- They detain a teenager for no apparent reason and make them stand next to their car for an hour or so, until it is curfew. Then they arrest them for violating curfew. Nice, huh?\n\nI am sure there are some really good cops out there, but unfortunately, MOST of them are at least moderately corrupt, if not totally. They know how to exploit the loopholes in the law, and don't always do so for the right reasons.
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It wouldn't be hear say if the people that bought the drugs testified, but good luck trying to get anyone to do it. You could tell them a 100 people bought drugs from the dealer, but without evidence they can't convict him. However, it may open up an investigation on him and then he could have a sting buy and be caught.
630306
Sometimes they are. They can't possible watch every sexual conversation can they? There aren't enough cops to do that. And if there were then the crime that happens outside the computer wouldn't be taken care of. The world would go to Hell
25766
The war on drugs is nowhere near over.  I was watching on the news a while back that after the tougher laws passed in Iowa reguarding the sales of certain ingredients in meth, that meth lab siezures had gone down a dramatic amount.  However, I still see people using every bit as much as before.  In my opinion, the law enforcement officials have not been working hard enough, and therefore cite the new law for less busts being made.
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Society and government have made two major errors in dealing with controlling drug addiction:\n\n1) They have set about controlling the drug use by limiting the source.  You have to limit the demand for controls to be effective.  By decreasing the supply, the demand (and price) is driven up, which escalates the profit and the traffic.\n\n2) In the “WAR on DRUGS” they refuse to accept casualties.  You cannot conduct any kind of effective warfare without accepting casualties.\n\nThe best way to handle the drug situation is to flood the market with easily-obtainable, cheap drugs.  If a bag of pot is only worth 40 cents, there isn’t any profit to be made and no interest in developing the markets.\n\nWhen stockpiles of drugs are discovered, they should be laced with strychnine and returned to the streets in mass quantities.  In a few short months of picking up bodies, the demand would cease because the addicts would either be dead or cured.  You wouldn’t be able to GIVE the stuff away, let alone SELL it!   \n\nEND of DRUG problem.  Accept the casualties, end the war and move on to something of more importance, like the national security or the world economy.\n\nJohnny
710516
Cops are in schools to educate. Unfortunately a large amount of crimes are committed by kids for whatever reason. In hopes of stopping them before they start cops were put into the schools to mingle with the kids and have themselves be seen as more human than just another cop. I know where I live that cops can't talk to kids who are suspects without making a diligent effort to speak to the parents first. Anyone who thinks cops like to arrest kids is sadly mistaken. It breaks your heart a lot of the time.
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I know some people think using drugs is no crime so we\nshould ignore it.  Well, much of the time, it is people\nwho are high on drugs of various kinds (including alcohol) that do evil things to other people or cause automobile\ndeaths due to driving while drunk.  A drug is a drug that\nalters the mind, so we need to stop those who sell to\nothers and get them hooked on them. Plus people kill for\ndrugs as once hooked they think they can't do without them,\nand they also steal money so they can buy these expensive\nnarcotics.
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Money!  Thats it.  Plain and simple.  The federal government aquires and distributes insane amounts of money for and from this so called "war on drugs"   What i mean is, the vast majority of prison inmates are booked due to drug related offences.  For each inmate booked the prison is alotted a certain amount of revenue.  Prisons are run by the state, therefore the state ultimatly ends up with this money.  Polititians find numerous ways to skim off the top as well as the high end execs.  Prisons are only one major source of benifiting from this mass amount of revenue.  In short a crime filled, chaotic country makes more cash than one such as amsterdam.