The Tragic Failure Of The War On Drugs

The War on Drugs has been a catastrophic failure. It has failed to decrease crime, the use of drugs, and has cause innocent people to get hurt in the process by getting rid of basic human rights. You would think a four decade war would produce some positive results right? No, it has just cause harm and the rise of some of the world 's most dangerous criminals. It has also given police the right to act as criminals with immunity of almost all actions. It has desensitized us to the pain of others and even paved way to a new set of Jim Crow laws. But maybe, all this wrong is actually a sign of good happening. Over the next few pages I tell you about the the terrible things that have happen thanks to this war, and even explain how these atrocities …show more content…
The problem with this is that a lot of these policies can, and have been used unfairly against those who have done nothing wrong. Two ways the War on Drugs have impacted minorities are by allowing law enforcement the right to Stop and Frisk, and the second was the invention of Special Weapons and Tactics.2 Both of these have been used in police brutality cases and help void civil rights of american citizens. While police use these two tactics to harass black individuals, and other minorities, it is not stopping or reducing drug crimes at all. We realize this war is not helping yet we are doing nothing to stop it, because people seem to enjoy the thought of trying to stop it, rather than discuss actual effective ways to reduce the use of …show more content…
The problem is that Americans are starting to tolerate this brutality. Accepting it as a normal thing in our society, like it is just normal for police to be able to do what they want when they want. Some have even bought into the idea that minorities are the “criminals” they are portrayed to be. These people are not only okay with police brutality, but encourage it. Thinking that if the police beat and abuse these drug offenders and hard criminals that they will start to obey the law. I would ask when as a society have we been okay with one group beating another just because they are different, but this has always been a normal thing. From whipping a disobedient slave, to lynching a black man who should have known not to look at a white women, to shooting a black teen who happens to be cutting through a parking garage at night because it is a short cut, we have always been okay with violence to some degree. But maybe this is not police brutality, but instead brutality of man fading