Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers
There's all this discussion of these issues, which relate to racism, economic issues, police brutality, crime, etc.<p>They seem complicated and nuanced and people throw their hands up and say well what can we do. The answer to that question is actually so simple you can say it in four words:<p><i></i>End the drug war.<i></i><p>Someone far more eloquent than me, The Wire creator David Simon, can flesh that out a little:<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/commentary/want-to-fix-baltimore-end-the-drug-war-says-david-simon/2015/04/29/696c2063a2386c61999ad0ae2f96956d_story.html?tid=kindle-app" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/commentary/want-to-fix-ba...</a>