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HOW THE DRUG WAR RUINS AMERICAN LIVES HOW THE DRUG WAR RUINS AMERICAN LIVES ARTHUR BENAVIE Copyright © 2016 by Arthur Benavie All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Benavie, Arthur, author. Title: How the drug war ruins American lives / Arthur Benavie. Description: Santa Barbara : Praeger, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifers: LCCN 2015043642 | ISBN 9781440850110 (print : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781440850127 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Drug control—United States. | Drug legalization—United States. | Drug testing—United States. | Social problems—United States. Classifcation: LCC HV5825 .B436 2016 | DDC 363.450973—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015043642 ISBN: 978-1-4408-5011-0 EISBN: 978-1-4408-5012-7 20 19 18 17 16 1 2 3 4 5 This book is also available on the World Wide Web as an eBook. Visit www.abc-clio.com for details. Praeger An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC ABC-CLIO, LLC 130 Cremona Drive, P.O. Box 1911 Santa Barbara, California 93116-1911 This book is printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America To my wife, Marcy, with all my love. Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Part I Policing for Proft 1 1 The License to Steal 3 2 Traffc Stops 13 3 Houses Arrested 17 4 SWAT Raids 23 5 Random Drug Sweeps 29 Part II Racial Injustice 37 6 Shutting the Courthouse Door 39 7 Racial Disparities 43 8 Police Bias in Seattle 47 9 Police Bias in New York 53 Part III Covert Operators 65 10 Criminal Informants 67 11 Undercover Police 73 viii Contents Part IV Citizenship Barriers 87 12 The Criminal Population 89 13 Invisible Punishments 93 Part V Drug Testing 121 14 Drug Testing Students 123 15 Employee Drug Testing 129 Part VI Is the War Ending? 135 16 Good News! 137 17 The War’s Benefciaries 141 Part VII Summary and Conclusions 145 18 Inevitable Damages 147 19 Drug War Benefts? 151 Notes 157 Selected Bibliography 211 Index 215 Acknowledgments or several years I have conducted a seminar on the drug war for Fstudents who are in their frst year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their insights and compassion have been a joy and an inspiration to me and have boosted my optimism about the future of our country. They have made an indelible contribution to this book. I wish to express my appreciation to Judge James P. Gray who read portions of an earlier version of the manuscript and shared with me his knowledge and enthusiasm for the project. I am grateful to a number of people with whom I have discussed this project and who gave me their advice: Daryl V. Atkinson, Ethan Nadelmann, Jeffrey A. Miron, Pat Oglesby, Jessica Smith, Richard B. Whisnant, and two Chapel Hill police offcers. I am deeply indebted to two knowledgeable, anonymous reviewers who read an earlier version of the manuscript and provided many con- structive suggestions on both substance and style. They went far beyond the usual duties of a reviewer. Whoever you are, thank you! My profound thanks to my editor, Jessica Gribble, for her support and encouragement. Finally, and most of all, I owe a debt of gratitude to my wife, Marcy Lansman, who spent many weeks working on the manuscript with me. To the extent that the book is lucid and well-organized she deserves much of the credit.
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