War On Drugs - The Prison Industrial Complex (1/10)

***The first few minutes are in dutch, but the rest is in english.

The war on drugs has been going on for more than three decades. ... all » Today, nearly 500,000 Americans are imprisoned on drug charges. In 1980 the number was 50,000. Last year $40 billion in taxpayer dollars were spent in fighting the war on drugs.

As a result of the incarceration obsession, the United States operates the largest prison system on the planet, and the U.S. nonviolent prisoner population is larger than the combined populations of Wyoming and Alaska. Try to imagine the Drug Enforcement Administration erecting razor wire barricades around two states to control crime and you'll get the picture.

According to the U.S. Dept of Justice, the number of offenders under age 18 imprisoned for drug offenses increased twelvefold from 1985 to 1997. The group most affected by this propensity for incarceration is African-Americans. From 1985 to 1997, the percentage of African-American young people put in prison increased from 53 to 62 percent.

Today, 89 percent of police departments have paramilitary units, and 46 percent have been trained by active duty armed forces. The most common use of paramilitary units is serving drug-related search warrants, which usually involve no-knock entries into private homes.

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[randy109]

I've counseled drug addicts. What you find among addicts are that they're mostly slaves to their addiction and are NOT criminals. People who are hooked on cocaine or heroin are no worse, and not much different than, Alcoholics. Self destructive addictions cannot be controlled by the government and due to the high profit margins of illegal narcotics guarantee that there will ALWAYS be drugs on our streets (and inside our jails and prisons). The whole "War on Drugs" mentality is about MONEY!!

[mystikast]

Everyone must watch

war on the drugs is a war on the people

[addictlee2008]

Cuntin Germans fuck off

[PlebScrubber]

@TheDennisegg no matter who you elect to office, the system wont change very much, there are systems in place to make sure it cant change, a lot of powerful people behind the scenes decide our fate, omaba is just a puppet, a front man, as will be the next president

[TheDennisegg]

blacks need to wake up and realize that obama is not the right candidate for us to support. research shows that as many whites sell and abuse drugs as blacks but the majority of people in prison for it are blacks. RON PAUL HAS PROMISED TO GIVE A PRESIDENTAL PARDON TO ALL NONVIOLENT DRUG OFFENDERS stop free slave labor..VOTE RON PAUL !

[silver760]

The average US cop wets their pants with excitement when they pull any average joe over in the street (usually black) and find a gram of coke on him.To them it's like they just busted a Columbian drug cartel,the cops seem to concentrate more on the users than the dealers,for example the first ten minutes of the program the drug officer is pointing out a dealer walking down the street!?! If they know he's a dealer and have had complaints about him selling drugs,why isn't he in prison?

[silver760]

Illegal drugs and alcohol use?? How can you use a legal drug illegally? The only way I could see illegal alcohol use would be sales to the under age,the US is rather crazy allowing only over 21's to drink.The US also seems to have a myriad of ridiculous "Drinking in public" and "Public intoxication" laws where people get banged up for being pissed in public.Americans must be shocked when they come to the UK and see what it's like on a Friday night in any UK town,pissed people everywhere!!

[maclovindotca]

The government made drugs so lucrative in the first place. Taxes on tobacco in Canada are getting higher and higher each year, and guess what, a contraband black market emerges. Great excuse to put people in jail.

[MrDeth2007]

You would think that if Michael Moore were to try and cash in on any unfortunate, on-going political event, it would be the drug war. Has happened yet.

[LoveVanillaRose]

AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE

[skaterguy421]

If you can't stop drugs in jail how do you expect to stop it on the street?

[lorddiosliving]

@mthrnaturesson specialy that the economic melt-down in america and the systematic over-priced middle class lifestyle thats so impossible for americans now-days