Good Cop, Bad War

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With a backdrop of his own dysfunctional marriage it traces his development from being a gung-ho undercover police officer in the UK infiltrating drug gangs to an advocate of the end to the war against drugs and the wholesale decriminalisation of drugs.

Neil worked in a relatively small area, in towns and cities around the peak district, except Brighton. In the end, the only people the police forces can bust are just ordinary addicts, they no longer have any access to the big dealers and gangs. The risks, the situations, the scenarios, were so gripping and could be straight out a blockbuster, but the pen halfway through the whole premise and purpose of the book or story changes to a personal campaign.So were there lots of policemen like him in other areas of Britain and if there were surely some of them would have been killed? Distribuimos y producimos contenido digital de información y entretenimiento y tenemos una gran selección de audiolibros, podcasts y series originales. for cannabis, 10% for cocaine, 10% for alcohol and 15% for crystal meth - with heroin as an outlier at 25%. I was touched by the degree to which Woods became fond of a lot of the addicts he worked with (albeit that he was under cover. In Switzerland they created a series of official injection centres in major cities, supplying clean equipment, medical advice and a space where addicts could inject safely.

With the insight that can only come from having fought on its front lines, Neil came to see the true futility of the War on Drugs – that it demonises those who need help, and only empowers the very worst elements in society. But after years on the streets, spending time with the vulnerable users at the bottom of the chain, Neil began to question the seemingly futile war he was risking both his life and sanity for.He points to Portugal where simple possession of drugs has been decriminalised (not possession with intent to supply, e.

To summarize what I want to say, it's your fucking "war on drugs" that created the mobs, idiot, exactly like your idiotic wars in Iraq, Chechnya, etc. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.It kept me enthralled all the way to the anti-prohibition message at the end, which I thought was well delivered. LEAP is an organisation made up exclusively of law enforcement professionals, past and present, who campaign for drug law reforms.