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Good Cop, Bad War

Good Cop, Bad War

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Neil Woods provides a very compelling argument in support of the decriminalisation of drugs in Good Cop, Bad War (2016). It will be tempting for those in favour of prohibition to paint Neil Woods as a limp-wristed, bleeding-heart liberal. Insofar as we make drugs illegal, we give big time criminals the opportunity for an excellent livelihood.

The book is set into chapters of towns where he was thrown in as an undercover operative with the objective being to arrest the main drug dealer of the area. The horrific account of the life on the streets but very eloquently conveys the authors change of perspective over his career. People are people, and innate humanity is essential -- the police must be focused on their basic reality, your job is to help people, and protect them. En nuestro catálogo encontrarás best-sellers, novelas románticas, libros de misterio, libros de desarrollo profesional, novelas de ciencia ficción y mucho más! Overall an outstanding book for me and I'd like to thank him for his honesty and strength in writing this.

I’ve read numerous police biographies, not a few by undercover officers, and none show such sensitivity to the people they met. Good Cop, Bad War' is a unique story about a man with a striking ability to infiltrate and extinguish drug gangs, but who, as the success of his operations grows, becomes disillusioned with the 'War on Drugs', as he sees how it demonises those who need help while empowering 'the very worst elements in society'. The final chapter setting out how this 'war' could be won - by not waging war at all - should be compulsory reading for the idiots who persist in fighting it.

Neil literally risked his life, day in day out in these undercover operations, because he was fantastic at his job and learnt well as he went along he kept himself save, just about. He points to Portugal where simple possession of drugs has been decriminalised (not possession with intent to supply, e. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The irony of officers locking up drug lords but taking cocaine themselves; the small time addicts who serve similar sentences to ruthless crime bosses, the sad reality that as you take out one gang, another instantly replaces them; the list goes on and in the end, he certainly makes a compelling case. Neil worked in a relatively small area, in towns and cities around the peak district, except Brighton.He knows what he's talking about having worked extensively as an undercover officer bringing down organised criminal gangs who profit from drugs. Portugal's rate of acute drug deaths per year is now three per million of population - the current UK rate, by contrast, is forty-six per million.

Violence in our inner cities is as bad as ever - while crime rates as a whole are falling, knife crime and gun crime is hardly a thing of the past on the sink estates that dot British cities. Good Cop, Bad War is the memoir of an undercover detective who successfully infiltrated some of the nastiest criminal gangs in England during the 1990s and 2000s. They way he always remembered that addicts and people caught up in drug use or dealing are often the victims and they needed help, support and the protection of the police instead of being collateral damage was what fascinated me the most. Gripping exposé of the disastrous reality of the drug war" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Before reading this I would have thought legalising hard drugs was madness but doing so makes so much sense. It does suffer from the unavoidable flaw of being restricted to only one person's version of events, but that's not a serious shortcoming.



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