David Simon Quotes About Drugs

Quotes about: Drugs

• Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he and Eric Holder did make some adjustments in terms of the use of the Department of Justice, on the federal level. You saw ratcheting back of drug prohibition, and mass incarceration. You also saw, on the part of some certain states, a realization that they followed the war on drugs to a useless place, that they were only doing damage to communities, and bankrupting budgets with prison construction.

  David Simon

  Meaningful, Country, War

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has

  David Simon

  War, Drug, Destroyed

• The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

  David Simon

  War, Holocaust, Drug

• What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has

  David Simon

  War, Drug, Havens

• If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.

  David Simon

  War, Class, Names

• That's what we were interested in: how power and money ran itself, much more so than 'drugs are bad, drugs are good.' That seems to me a simple moral equation and one you don't have to spend 60 hours of television examining. And I think the same thing is true with how we approached pornography or prostitution. Prostitution's been around since the Bible, and pornography's been around since about 15 minutes after the French guy invented the first camera.

  David Simon

  Simple, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• The murder clearance rate now in my city Baltimore is almost non-existent. Nobody can solve a murder, nobody can do any actual police work, because they've learned how to do bad police work, chase drugs. Fighting vice, while being unable to respond to sin. Generations of cops have learned how not to police work by policing the drug war. Not only are they police brutal, they're ineffective. Baltimore is more violent than it has ever been in modern history.

  David Simon

  War, Fighting, Police

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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