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...Police Crack Down...
...Instead, all over the country, lawmen wail that their best efforts are being overwhelmed by the sheer volume of drug traffic. "You can't say anything is working," admits Jim Goudy, commander of the Houston police narcotics division. In Boston, Deputy Superintendent William Celester concedes that raids on crack dens by newly organized police "impact teams" have accomplished little more than pushing the sites from one location to another. Los Angeles Narcotics Detective Kenneth Wilkinson expressed the point with classic simplicity at a meeting of 80 residents who demanded to know how crack dens were going to be wiped...
...drug dealers before | conviction. Federal agents last year relieved them of about $360 million. Local police are trying some innovative approaches. In Boston, New York City and Miami, they have begun confiscating the cars of well-off suburbanites who drive into the cities and get arrested while buying crack. The haul in New York since late July: 107 cars, including several BMWs and at least one Mercedes-Benz. And everywhere arrest totals are rising. Police in Florida nabbed 4,573 suspected cocaine sellers last year, more than double the number...
...brought to trial within 90 days of arrest. Consequently, drug dealers demand jury trials, knowing no judges will be available to conduct them within the permitted time. Overworked judges then let the dealers plead guilty and bargain over the length of their sentences. (The median misdemeanor term for selling crack in Manhattan: ten days...
...Harlem, angry residents paint large red X's on crack dealers' doors and put stuffed animals in the windows of abandoned buildings as a symbolic gesture to reclaim them from drug users. In New Mexico, two children turn in their parents to the police for marijuana possession, just as a California girl did her coke-using parents a week earlier. In Washington, the President of the U.S., the Vice President and most of the White House staff patriotically provide urine samples so that it can be seen if they have within the past few days consumed any heroin, cocaine, marijuana...