Forty years after President Richard Nixon began the War on Drugs, some of those who enforced the policy are crying for its end.
In a rally that hoped to attract the attention of President Barack Obama and his ‘drug czar,’ National Drug Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske, former law enforcement officials called the War On Drugs murderous and wasteful.
The conference came just weeks after the Global Commission on Drugs released a report calling the policy a failed one.
One former narcotics officer said the War on Drugs is the reason some of his comrades and friends are no longer alive.
Neil Franklin, a former Maryland state officer, spoke the names of some fallen police officers during the Law Enforcement Against Prohibition press conference.
Franklin began to tear up as he spoke of his friend, Maryland State Police Officer Edward M. Toatley, who was gunned down and killed in the midst of a drug deal. He continued to chastise Attorney General Eric Holder for his nonchalant attitude towards those who died fighting the War on Drugs.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/15/police-war-on-drugs-worst-policy-since-slavery
