Pubdate: Tue, 25 Aug 2015
Source: Baltimore Sun (MD)
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Author: George Frazier

SAVE LIVES: END THE DRUG WAR

I applaud Joseph Scalia's commentary ("Blame city violence on the 
drug war," Aug. 22). His statement that this is a war not on drugs 
but on people living in war zones in every American city is 
unfailingly accurate. His admonition that no progress, regardless of 
the dollars spent, will be achieved to alleviate the killings and 
spare these families and neighborhoods in free fall until a truce has 
been declared could not be more prophetic.

One might expect law enforcement and its unions would be the first 
large contingent to call for that truce, given the impossible job 
they have been charged with all these years.

George Frazier, Baltimore
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