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"Corruption is endemic in the enforcement of drug
laws.
Many people who have cash
and property seized are never charged with a crime.
Many police
departments are dependent on drug related seizures for basic budget items." -
Clifford A. Schaffer In rural East Texas,
methamphetamine labs often operate unnoticed.
Misdemeanor drug charges
in Smith County; about 100 miles southeast of Dallas, are as common
as drunk driving arrests according to district attorney Matt Bingham.
In the last six years, the Troup police force sent just 2 felony drug
cases to the district attorney's office.
Major Mike Lusk, head of
criminal investigations for the Smith County Sheriff's Department, said
Troup police sent a total of two drug evidence samples to the Texas
Department of Public Safety crime lab since 2000.
"We do that much
in an hour." - Major Mike Lusk
"It appears from the current
investigation that the problem is not with the Troup Police Department
prosecuting innocent people, it is that they were not
prosecuting guilty people." -
district attorney Matt Bingham
"America contains 4% of the Earth's
population and has incarcerated 25% of all imprisoned people on Earth.
Twenty years ago America spent $36 billion on police, courts and
incarceration a year while today it spends $167 billion.
The economic
costs of a criminal justice system that emphasizes
punishment and
incarceration at the expense of rehabilitation and the potential for
recovery are unsustainable." - Joe Domanick, senior fellow in criminal justice
at USC Anneberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism.
"Since
1975 California criminal justice policy has developed haphazardly, through laws
passed by politicians whose chief goal was to appear to be
tougher on crime than
their opponents.
One obstacle to serious reform in the
California prisons is the California Correctional Peace Officers Association,
the correctional officers union, which wields tremendous political power.
Even legislators who understand the issues involved in
transforming
the prison system have been unable to do what they need to do because of the
union's willingness to use dollars and scare tactics against reform-minded
politicians." - Jeanne S. Woodford, California Department of
Corrections
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