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Book SynopsisThis 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 Americanswhile doing little to stop drug trafficking or use.Unique in its perspective, this eye-opening book looks at the drug war as a rights issue and concludes that Americans'' civil liberties are clearly being violated. The volume proceeds from two premises: that over the past 30 years, America''s War on Drugs has done more harm than good; and that if the United States is going to reform the criminal justice system, the public must understand that this war is empowered by the profits it provides to law enforcement and other groups. A central factor causing the upsurge in the drug war, the author explains, is the fact that laws were passed in the 1980s that allowed law enforcement to profit from seizing property based on scanty evidence and without criminal charges. His meticulous research has revealed that this policing for pr
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction
Part I Policing for Profit 1 The License to Steal 2 Traffic Stops 3 Houses Arrested 4 SWAT Raids 5 Random Drug Sweeps
Part II Racial Injustice 6 Shutting the Courthouse Door 7 Racial Disparities 8 Police Bias in Seattle 9 Police Bias in New York
Part III Covert Operators 10 Criminal Informants 11 Undercover Police
Part IV Citizenship Barriers 12 The Criminal Population 13 Invisible Punishments
Part V Drug Testing 14 Drug Testing Students 15 Employee Drug Testing
Part VI Is the War Ending? 16 Good News! 17 The War's Beneficiaries
Part VII Summary and Conclusions 18 Inevitable Damages 19 Drug War Benefits? Notes Selected Bibliography Index
