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Quoting Radley Balko, for the umpteenth time over the past few years:

Drug cops in Falmouth, Mass. sent a hot, young female cop to pose as a student at the local high school. She befriended several adolescent boys with low self esteem by pretending she was interested in them, then she asked them to get her marijuana. If you've ever been a high school boy, it won't surprise you to learn that they came through, even though most of them had no history of drug use at all, much less of drug peddling. Of course, they were promptly arrested, booked, and touted out as the latest Drug War trophies.

What a sick spectacle. Is this really what it's come to? Manipulating emotionally fragile teenagers into commiting crimes they otherwise wouldn't have commited with fake romantic advances? This isn't fighting crime. It's creating crime. Any Drug Warrior want to proudly stand up for this one?

Yes, that's what it's come to. If you're going to win the war on drugs you're going to have to put a lot of people in prison.

Posted by Walter at April 9, 2006 10:50 PM