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To: one_less who wrote (66174)	11/7/2002 5:09:54 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 82486

And have the social ills associated with alcohol use disappeared as well? No. But the crime has. And people kept drinking during prohibition, as we know well. Didn't stop the use. Just made enormous profits for criminals and diverted the attention of law enforcement from protecting the public to chasing bootleggers. And, of course, the enormous profits in alcohol then and drugs now are a problem in keeping police forces clean and uncorrupted. That's an issue we havn't raised yet, but we read regularly of reports of police officers who succumb to the lure of drug money, whether stealing drugs themselves, accepting protection money, or whatever. That is less likely to happen with crimes which are less well organized and less lucrative, and where the amount of cash flowing through the system and the easy transportability of drugs makes it easy for cops to slip a bit into their own pockets when they make a bust. I'm actually surprised how little that happens. Or, at least, how few get caught, which may not be the same thing at all.

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