[Ken H]

Anyone with sense can recognize that the great majority of murders in the US are between gang members, criminals, drug cartels, and those who frequent drug shops (as in the article).

So explain why the Dutch have a murder rate that is a fraction of the US. Crime ought to be rampant in such a drug-tolerant environment, right?

Your arguments are non-sequitor: You don't want police to suppress crime so you can be less "oppressed", but you want them to suppress crime so we can be more like Europe. Herein lies your problem.

I want police, as well as the rest of the government, to obey the Constitution. Drug war punks think nothing of walking over the Tenth Amendment to have their little 'war' - and make a good salary at taxpayers' expense, to boot. Just wait until austerity hits, LOL!

[Dutchboy88]

"Drug war punks think nothing of walking over the Tenth Amendment to have their little 'war' - and make a good salary at taxpayers' expense, to boot."

Yes, of course, the problem is with the enforcers...not your druggie buddies who break the law, kill the innocent, ruin the cities, tear apart families, destroy the fabric of America, cause the public to live in fear, poison the folks who use their products. Yes, now we understand what you want.