Benavie, Arthur,

How the drug war ruins American lives / Arthur Benavie. - 1 online resource (xv, 224 pages) - Gale virtual reference library .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Policing for profit -- The license to steal -- Traffic stops -- Houses arrested -- Swat raids -- Random drug sweeps -- Racial injustice -- Shutting the courthouse door -- Racial disparities -- Police bias in seattle -- Police bias in New York -- Covert operators -- Criminal informants -- Undercover police -- Citizenship barriers -- The criminal population -- Invisible punishments -- Drug testing -- Drug testing students -- Employee drug testing -- Is the war ending? -- Good news! -- The war's beneficiaries -- Summary and conclusions -- Inevitable damages -- Drug war benefits? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book reveals the disturbing truth about how the escalation of the War on Drugs over the past 30 years has eroded the human and property rights of Americans--while doing little to stop drug trafficking or use.

9781440850110 9781440850127


Drug control--United States.
Drug legalization--United States.
Drug testing--United States.
Social problems--United States.

HV5825 / .B436 2016

363.450973

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