Why Criminalizing Addiction Will Not Make Us Safe
Seattle's ex-police chief on why he came around to oppose the war on drugs.
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Check back soon for an interview with Norm Stamper.
- More from our Summer 2011 issue, Beyond Prisons.
The United States locks up more people than any other country, but that hasn't made us safer. The drug war jails thousands of nonviolent addicts. Taxpayers and poor communities lose as states slash social programs to pay for prisons. There's a better way—compassion, not punishment; restoration, not isolation. It's less costly, more humane—and it works.
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