People hurting pets to get pain medication, reports on the rise across the US

[Geel]

[QUOTE=Omilinon;51927907]I don't think he's saying that addicts [I]shouldn't[/I] be punished for causing violence, but simply doing it the old way of just throwing them the book without a second thought isn't helping anyone. It's just gonna lead to those addicts to continue being addicts after they leave jail, because what else have they got?

It's also not just with addicts, the whole US justice system is in ruins from the bureaucracy, to the courts, to the prisons. It needs desperate reform from the bottom-up, because with the dismal state it's in, it's no wonder that the US has the highest incarcerated rate out of any Western country by a longshot, and I'm pretty sure it actually holds the most incarcerated per capita in the [I]world[/I].[/QUOTE]

I think we need to make a massive shift from incarcerating drug users to just focusing on violent people.

If we allow people to seek help for their addictions without fear of being arrested, there's simply no excuse for violent behavior when addicted. They had ample resources and ignored them. They break the law, they face the repercussions of their actions.

[Gook Nukem]

[QUOTE=geel9;51928696]I think we need to make a massive shift from incarcerating drug users to just focusing on violent people.[/QUOTE]

What about blue / white collar crime? Fraud? Theft? Etc?

[Geel]

[QUOTE=Quark:;51929938]What about blue / white collar crime? Fraud? Theft? Etc?[/QUOTE]

The context of the discussion is violent drug users. What are you doing?

[cis.joshb]

just another symptom of the war on drugs. good job, reagan.