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Originally Posted by SebC
Let me preface this with saying you sound like you're one of the good ones and it is not my intent to diminish that or your colleagues, but aren't these advances in politics, moreso than in policing? If you accept that these are political gains, then it would seem like the best way to advance policing to is be political and lobby for progressive legislation. Do many police support the politicians that are advancing causes like decriminalization of marijuana?
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Thanks Seb I appreciate it. I guess the point I was trying to make is that we are simply an arm of the crown, things get criminalized, things get decriminalized or legalized and we go with the flow. Policing adapts to the laws of the land. Our investigative strategies changed when hard caps were set on the time from arrest to trial in R vs Jordan for example. Case law is constantly changing the way we do business. I’ve never heard of anyone being against the legalization of marihuana, the decriminalization of 2.5 grams of hard drugs is another story. Most officers I work with realize that simply jail is not the way to solve the opioid crisis, homelessness, uptick in violent crime etc, however rehab is. I don’t think it’s going to make a difference to overdoses or violent crime in its current form but that’s just my opinion which doesn’t matter so I follow what the law says.