The Failure Of The War On Drugs

The war on drugs is a complete failure. When connecting drugs to crime the relationship is complex. Many different reasons can be the cause of addiction, selling drugs, drug users and the creation of war on drugs. The criminal justice approach only created a deep depression over minority communities. The war on drugs created a vicious ongoing cycle that minorities, especially American Americans cannot not escape. Michelle Alexander suggested the war on drugs is similar to Jim Crow laws. The war on drugs is a way to systematically control a race and legit destroy them. The war on drugs was supposedly to stop the drug problem in the nation but it failed. Instead it back fired and basically tried to wipe out a race. Among poor African Americans the war on drugs became their own personal lifestyle. The idea of actually getting rid of drugs is very problematic. Drugs were a survival game for minorities more than a national problem. Drugs laws only destroyed minority communities. The war on Drugs approach the government decided to take to fix society was a miserable failure. War on drugs crated human failure. Everyone started to become victims of unnecessary drug policies, even the police. Police officers policing changed from trying to get rid of drugs to abusing drug-Abuse arrest. This notion constructed stereotypical factors about who sold drugs
Drugs itself would not have destroyed a community so easily like policy and procedure have. The drugs that did not ruin a community, the war against them has. Mandatory minimum sentencing statutes allowed the war on drugs to increase incarceration and continue to fail. By judges being required to impose sentencing based on legal factors and extra-legal factors are unfair. This allowed life sentencing to be unjust and prison to be