Pubdate: Mon, 14 Dec 2015
Source: Journal Standard, The (Freeport, IL)
Copyright: 2015 GateHouse Media, Inc.
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Author: Kirk Muse

POLICE BUST POOR NEIGHBORHOODS FOR THE EASE

I'm writing about your story, "Chicago area men accused of cannabis 
possession after hotel search," Dec. 9. I wonder if your police 
department has solved all your robberies and rapes? If not, why are 
they wasting their time and resources making petty pot busts?

Why are the pot busts always in poor neighborhoods? Why don't they 
make pot busts in affluent neighborhoods like Woodside Drive or homes 
that back onto the Freeport Country Club fairways? Do the police 
think people who live in affluent neighborhoods don't use cannabis 
and buy their cannabis from their neighbors?

The real reason is that if the police started busting affluent people 
for pot, the war on drugs would soon be over. People in affluent 
neighborhoods have power and influence. People in poor neighborhoods don't.

- - Kirk Muse, Mesa, Arizona
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