Outlawing vice activities like drugs, gambling, or prostitution, by its nature, breeds police corruption. And, corruption is just as visible with the current drug war, if not more so, than during the prohibition of alcohol. For example, there were 125 employees convicted for drug trafficking/corruption crimes in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency alone from 2005 to 2012. Corruption is widespread enough that stopthedrugwar.org publishes an article every week, “This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories.” However, that doesn’t justify generalizing every law enforcement agent. That kind of corruption is a condemnation of prohibition policy. Also, people tend to envision a low-level, beat cop when this topic is mentioned. However, the drug war has been corrupted at the highest levels of government. In fact, the U.S. government has protected, armed, and paid some of the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world over the last 80 years as long as it enabled their
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Douglas Valentine, author of The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs, documented how the U.S. government began blocking high level drug trafficking investigations before Harry Anslinger even took office with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN). Ralph Oyler, a top federal narcotics detective, traveled to China in 1926 to pursue a major heroin trafficking organization, but the U.S. War Department and State Department interfered with his investigation. They did so because his targets were closely connected with Chiang Kai-shek, a key ally. Chiang Kai-shek was the political and military leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party (known as the Kuomintang or KMT). Chiang Kai-shek removed the communist leaders from their party, including Mao Tse Tung, and led a revolution to take over the country. The Chinese Nationalist Party or the KMT won their civil war and controlled most of mainland China from 1928 to
Douglas Valentine, author of The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs, documented how the U.S. government began blocking high level drug trafficking investigations before Harry Anslinger even took office with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN). Ralph Oyler, a top federal narcotics detective, traveled to China in 1926 to pursue a major heroin trafficking organization, but the U.S. War Department and State Department interfered with his investigation. They did so because his targets were closely connected with Chiang Kai-shek, a key ally. Chiang Kai-shek was the political and military leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party (known as the Kuomintang or KMT). Chiang Kai-shek removed the communist leaders from their party, including Mao Tse Tung, and led a revolution to take over the country. The Chinese Nationalist Party or the KMT won their civil war and controlled most of mainland China from 1928 to