From October 2016 to January 2017, Human Rights Watch investigated 24 incidents of killings of alleged drug dealers and users, involving 32 victims, that occurred in Metro Manila, the National Capital Region of the Philippines, and nearby provinces since President Rodrigo Duterte took office on June 30, 2016. These were a small percentage of the more than 7,080 such killings that the latest statistics from the Philippine National Police indicate have occurred between July 1, 2016 and January 31, 2017.[3]
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From outside, neighbors and relatives heard Agrigado begging for his life and screaming from what they assumed was physical violence being inflicted by the gunmen. Soon thereafter, gunshots rang out, and the shouting stopped.[180] After the shooting, the family was surprised to find two dead bodies with gunshot wounds in their home: that of Agrigado, who appeared to have been shot in the mouth, and of Raffy Sardido, 31, a neighbor who had also been identified as a drug user and possible drug dealer.[181] Sardido was not in the home when the gunmen had arrived, so the family assumes that he was brought inside during the raid.[182]
Kellner: No. I don't think it's realistic or lawful for another state to criminalize the conduct that somebody engages in that's lawful in another state. I also have heard people be concerned about restricting their right to travel between states. I think that's flatly unconstitutional, and I would stand up against that, too. To take it another step further, I mean, you're talking about medical doctors who are licensed in the state of Colorado performing a lawful procedure in the state of Colorado, to see someone outside of our state try to criminalize that is wrong, and I would fight that, too.
The video traces the drug war from President Nixon to the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws to the emerging aboveground marijuana market that is poised to make legal millions for wealthy investors doing the same thing that generations of people of color have been arrested and locked up for. After you watch the video, read on to learn more about the discriminatory history of the war on drugs.
Nearly everybody came. In the meeting, the police reiterated what they had said in previous meetings with gang members: that they wanted the drug dealers to stay alive and out of jail. They also warned that the consequences of not shutting down the drug markets would be severe. In High Point, N.C., where the program was piloted, the open-air drug market disappeared.
"There's a profit and a loss side on the public safety balance sheet," he says. "And what we see in many places is that while you can bring crime down by occupying the neighborhood and stopping everybody, what you do in the process is lose that neighborhood. ... You fuel the idea that the police are an occupying, inimical force in the neighborhood. You play into these real and toxic racial memories about what came before civil rights. And you can make it work in many places, but you can't stop. You can't ever say, 'We've won. Things are good. Things are stable,' because you have driven them into hiding."
But in High Point, N.C., where Kennedy piloted his cease-fire program, talking directly to drug dealers appears to be working. He recalls a conversation he overheard, shortly after the open-air markets were shut down.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Newly appointed San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins Wednesday said she plans to intensify prosecution of drug dealers caught selling fentanyl, including withdrawing over two dozen plea deals.
"If District Attorney Jenkins truly wants to address the issues facing our city, she should not be relying on outdated and politically expedient soundbites about harsher enforcement," the statement added. "Fifty years of evidence from the war on drugs have shown that these punitive practices have not prevented recidivism nor improved community health and safety. San Francisco can and must do better than this. We should instead invest our city's resources in funding more effective solutions, such as housing, jobs, and treatment."
We already have a policy against small amounts of drugs not being the subject of criminal offences. Small amounts for personal use are usually not brought to court. Personal use means a non-commercial use, so you might have bought a month's supply or you might have bought enough for one reefer or something like that. There is a distinction drawn in legislation and policy at the moment on the difference between dealers and pushers and users on the other side.
Ross was also not the first crack dealer in South Central Los Angeles. Others taughthim about crack cocaine. Ross told the OIG that he first learned to "rock up"cocaine powder so that it was suitable for smoking from Stefan Moore, and told LASDinvestigators that he learned from "watching different people in theneighborhood," including Michael McLaurin and a "pimp named Martin." Rosstold the OIG that other drug dealers did not really want to show him how to cook crackbecause they usually got paid to make the crack. It is also worthy of note that Ross hasnever claimed that Blandon, or any other Nicaraguan, taught him how to make crack cocaine.Ross has specifically denied in both his interview with the OIG and in trial testimonythat Blandon taught him how to cook crack.
In 1985, the DEA began investigating Mario Ernesto Villabona Alvarez, a Colombian drugsource, and soon discovered that Brian Bennett, who became one of the largest traffickersin Los Angeles, was one of his customers. During an intercepted telephone conversation inApril 1988 between Villabona and an individual in Cali, Colombia, Villabona was given anaccounting of money owed by Bennett for 1987 and 1988 cocaine deliveries. In addition to985 kilos of cocaine that had been sold to Bennett's operation at the end of 1987 forbetween $9,500 to $10,000 a kilo, another 1,791 kilos was sold to Bennett's operationduring January and February 1988 for between $9,000 and $9,500. At the time of his arrest,the Bennett-Villabona drug organization was selling approximately a ton of cocaine perweek, according to law enforcement sources quoted in news coverage about the arrest. DEAagents also determined that Villabona was supplying other South Central Los Angelesdealers including Michael Harris, Jimmy Washington, and Mike McCarver. McCarver alone wasbuying thousands of kilos of cocaine.
Another theory posits that crack cocaine was an outgrowth of experimentation withfreebasing cocaine, a method of administering cocaine that was particularly popular on theWest Coast in the 1970s and early 1980s, and coca paste smoking. Dr. Ronald Siegel, aresearcher now at UCLA who for two decades researched freebasing practices, has documentedcrack and freebasing practices. Dr. Siegel believes that crack cocaine was imported to theUnited States in the early 1970s by United States cocaine smugglers who observed cocapaste smoking while in South America. A drug trafficker who was interviewed by Dr. Siegelin 1974 reported his experience with coca paste: "[S]moking base is incrediblyeuphoric, just like shooting it [intravenously]. We don't want too many people knowingabout it because it will get out of hand. It's incredibly addicting. But you need a lot ofcoke to make it, so only dealers will probably do it."(60)
According to Dr. Siegel, a mis-translation related to coca paste may have resulted inthe unintended creation of freebase. Dr. Siegel was told by an interviewee who was a drugtrafficker that in January 1974 he told a chemist about smoking "base." Theinterviewee was referring to "base" (pronounced bah-say), a coca paste smoked inSouth America. The chemist, who reportedly thought that the interviewee was referring tothe chemical "base" form of cocaine hydrochloride, attempted to recreate what hethought the interviewee had described, cocaine hydrochloride converted to a base state.The chemist used baking soda and ether in the conversion process.(61)The result was cocaine freebase, a substance that was purer and more concentrated than thecoca paste that was being smoked in South America, because it contained neither thesolvents nor the other residues from the coca leaf extraction process. [See Appendix B fordiscussion of manufacturing coca paste.] Dr. Siegel believes that chemist may have createdsomething that never had been manufactured before. Dr. Siegel stated in an interview withthe OIG, if there was a "Johnny Appleseed of crack," it was that chemist.
An effort to impose harsher punishments on drug dealers who sell fentanyl failed again at the California state capitol. Advocates have not given up and instead vowed to get the issue on the ballot before voters.
Four of the five members of the California Assembly Public Safety Committee voted against it Tuesday. Some lawmakers last year have previously expressed their concern with the bill's approach, emphasizing that incarceration of drug dealers "did not solve the problem."
Since his death, parents Laura and Chris Didier have become activists, raising awareness about the dangers of fentanyl to ensure other parents don't experience the loss of a child through the illegal drug.
Lawmakers on Tuesday also shot down another bill, Senate Bill 75, which would have meant longer sentences for convicted drug dealers. The sentence length would have varied depending on the weight of drugs they had. One of the five members of the Public Safety Committee voted no; three of them didn't vote at all.
California is one of the dozens of states with laws on the books that criminalize drug use during pregnancy, some of which have been passed in recent years in response to growing concerns about the opioid epidemic. Studies have found that the rate of children born with neonatal abstinence syndrome, a form of withdrawal, increased by more than 500% between 2004 and 2014, and opioid overdoses have become a significant contributor to maternal deaths in some states.
In some jurisdictions, prosecutors are aggressively cracking down on drug or alcohol use by women while pregnant. In one case, a prosecutor in Mississippi has used a state law that defines poisoning as child abuse to prosecute 20 cases since 2015. 2ff7e9595c
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