The Drug-Violence Myth
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The Drug-Violence Myth
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Re: The Drug-Violence Myth
#2Long, long ago, in a college town far away, I was arrested in my own home, without a warrant, for possession of marijuana. The case was thrown out by a judge due to various evidence problems, stemming from not getting a warrant.
There are a limited number of circumstances under which it is legal for police to enter and search a home without a warrant. As my lawyer casually knocked down the others, the prosecutor finally landed on "danger to the officers". The cop on the witness stand helpfully piped up, "In a drug case, there's always danger to the officers!" The judge glared at him, and said "You just told me you were outside for fifteen minutes, and they didn't even know you were there! You were not in danger!"
That was pretty much the end of the case.
Re: The Drug-Violence Myth
#3Why is this on the front page? I've used multiple browsers on multiple OS's and every one of them renders a blank page.
Re: The Drug-Violence Myth
#4Why is this on the front page? I've used multiple browsers on multiple OS's and every one of them renders a blank page.
Not having that issue here, but it seems to be dependent on javascript to do anything.
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#5Sadly, our world-class political system is based entirely upon feelz, with no minimum qualifications for participation.
Re: The Drug-Violence Myth
#6Long, long ago, in a college town far away, I was arrested in my own home, without a warrant, for possession of marijuana. The case was thrown out by a judge due to various evidence problems, stemming from not getting a warrant. There are a limited number of circumstances under which it is legal for police to enter and search a home without a warrant. As my lawyer casually knocked down the others, the prosecutor fina…
im confused - who was outside for 15 minutes ?
Re: The Drug-Violence Myth
#7It is hard to dispute that inner city gun violence is drug related, which is probably why they don't mention it.
Re: The Drug-Violence Myth
#8Sadly, our world-class political system is based entirely upon feelz, with no minimum qualifications for participation.
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." -Thomas Sowell
Re: The Drug-Violence Myth
#9Why is this on the front page? I've used multiple browsers on multiple OS's and every one of them renders a blank page.
Not having that issue here, but it seems to be dependent on javascript to do anything.
Have to allow JS from filepicker.io, two amazon.aws domains, and a cloudfront domain.
Re: The Drug-Violence Myth
#10It is hard to dispute that inner city gun violence is drug related, which is probably why they don't mention it.
The article quoted national statistics, which would probably include inner cities in those statistics.
Also, the question isn't whether guns imply drugs, but whether drugs imply guns. P(A|B) != P(B|A).