RE: My Personal Feelings About Police Officers.

Well said, I think police should have to recruit from their city. This way, cops aren't unnecessarily fearful of their environment. A lot of the drug laws need to be rolled back, especially in the case of marijuana. A big focus needs to be on community policing, and that would cause people to be more helpful. If the people know the cops have good intentions and are more focused on violent criminals, we wouldn't need as many, and the ones we do have would be cherished for what they do.

There are so many ways they can fix law enforcement, but it involves looking at drug abuse as a medical problem and getting cops more focused on being peace officers, rather than police officers, or revenue agents for the city. What disturbed me, and I didn't learn about this until just a couple of days ago, was this. Whatever is going on there doesn't seem right, but half of it is due to the stupid laws that cops are required to enforce.

If someone wants to screw themselves up on drugs or alcohol, so long as they're not driving the roads or acting violently towards people, it doesn't seem like a police affair to me. Yet the onus is on Congress to change the laws, and I think the reason some of these laws are installed in the first place is that making some of the various substances illegal creates an extraordinarily lucrative black market that many competing entities are hell-bent on capitalizing on. It's almost like we have a built-in racket for the various pharmaceutical companies.