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Title: To Bust People for Buying Crack, Cops Are Now Manufacturing and Selling People Crack
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URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/bu ... ple-crack/#Bwgz6DI8Kg45z8tC.99
Published: May 15, 2016
Author: Claire Bernish
Post Date: 2016-05-16 18:51:33 by Deckard
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A reverse buy bust appears to be in the works for the Albuquerque Police Department, but the details of how they plan to go about catching low-level drug users — by becoming crack cocaine manufacturers — signifies everything inherently corrupt about the U.S.’ war on drugs. Burque Media exclusively revealed APD’s intentions to become temporary crack manufacturers, after a confidential source shared the affidavit about the impending bust. “Powdered cocaine may be taken into APD’s Criminalistics Unit to be made into crack cocaine,” reads the Affidavit and Motion to Release Evidence, dated February 25, 2016, and signed by a District Court Judge. In addition to the police-manufactured crack, APD is also permitted to use methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin from its cataloged evidence stores to become drug dealers in order to catch individuals who use those illegal substances. “Once the transaction is completed,” the document continues, “the individual purchasing the drugs will be arrested and charged with Felony Possession of a Controlled Substance. The detectives will attempt to immediately retrieve the drugs sold.” While high-level, volume-transporting, and sometimes violent drug dealers — created by the illegality of such substances in the State’s failed drug war — won’t be the target of this bust, small-time users will be entrapped by police con-artists and have their lives upended with serious charges. Police, in such a dual operation, become perpetrators of the very problem they claim to be combating — to catch individuals whose only harm is to their own person. According to Burque Media’s source, police initiated the reverse sting operation, which will run through the end of 2016, pursuant to complaints from area businesses and residents. “The business[es], residents, and patrons have complained about drug dealing throughout the City of Albuquerque,” claims the affidavit. “Citizens have contacted Detectives complaining about being asked, by people walking/driving through the City of Albuquerque, if they wanted to purchase drugs.” As the anonymous source noted, APD’s bust likely targets the city’s most precariously situated and vulnerable residents: homeless drug addicts. “Law enforcement has tried many methods and has been unable to effectively stop the supply of drugs to the street dealers and users in these areas,” the document states. “These methods include but are not limited too [sic] successfully purchasing drugs from drug dealers in the area […“ It is believed that taking enforcement action against the purchasers of drugs in these areas, if well known, would reduce the demand for drugs in the City of Albuquerque.” Obviously, Albuquerque isn’t looking to Portugal, where all drugs have been decriminalized to enormous success — including across-the-board drops in both usage and addiction rates — for a model to combat, ironically, issues stemming from America’s drug war. When an open and legal market exists for those who choose to use, and includes ease of obtaining help from treatment centers when necessary, residents and businesses wouldn’t be pestered by addicts on the street. In fact, APD’s plans are troubling, even for insiders. “This is a practice I have frowned upon because of the use of seized drugs already tagged into evidence, and I have not seen it for some time,” explained Pete Dinelli, former Chief Deputy District Attorney and former Chief Public Safety Officer, who doubted the veracity of the APD’s plans until the affidavit was filed in court. “It’s downright dangerous to be using drugs seized in other drug busts because of chain-of-custody issues and the risk associated with not being able to track what happens. The city could also be exposed to liability for using tainted drugs that they lose track of.” Dinelli’s concerns may be justified. As if supplementing the use of logged drug evidence with police-made crack weren’t bad enough, the affidavit points to awareness the APD likely will lose some of its product over the course of the sting. “Any drugs not used in this operation will be returned to the Albuquerque Police Department’s Evidence Unit,” the document concludes. As Dinelli summarized of the whole operation, “This is a very poor law enforcement practice.” When even the cops are manufacturing crack, you know the war on drugs is nothing short of a farce.
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#1. To: ConservingFreedom, misterwhite, Roscoe, GrandIsland, Gatlin, A K A Stone (#0)
Ping. This yellow journalism article makes it sound that APD is going to overly saturate and already area critically saturated Albuquerque with crack cocaine. Nothing is further from the truth. God, I hate yellow journalism. A drastic problem requires a drastic method to correct. These unorthodox reverse buy-bust method is taken because crack cocaine poses the most significant drug threat in Albuquerque. Crack cocaine continues to saturate Albuquerque. It is important to note that the operation calls for the release of no more than EIGHT (8) OUNCES of crack from the Albuquerque Police Department’s Evidence Unit to detectives of the Albuquerque Police Department’s Narcotics Unit for use in a “Reversal Operation.” ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – The welcome mat is not so welcome at one gateway hub in Albuquerque. Fred Williams has seen it all from his home at the Silver Gardens Apartments across the street. “They mess everything up, they don’t clean up after themselves,” he said. Since February, KRQE News 13 has been recording undercover video and saw the problems first hand. One man counts a wad of cash and makes a hand-off to another. Often the group that hangs out on the stucco benches out front passes around something to smoke that is probably not tobacco. Multiple times KRQE News 13 witnessed suspected drug use and drug deals. Vehicles were seen pulling up to the group and suspected deals were made. “I think it’s a bad image on New Mexico to be honest,” said Blake McPherson, who saw the problem after stepping out of the ATC. The welcome mat for visitors included booze bottles, trash and syringe caps. Residents say the city needs to do more to quell the problem. “Definitely, definitely,” Williams said. At times, this activity was happening just steps from security guards. They slowly saunter down the street toward the large group which disperses, but within 30 minutes they come back. “They’re not worried because they can see if the cops are coming or not. And when the cops do decide to come, they come from one direction, not all directions,” Williams said. KRQE News 13 showed the undercover video to Albuquerque Police Lt. Arturo Sanchez, who oversees this area working in APD’s Valley Area Command. “Some of that activity is somewhat consistent with narcotics,” he said. Sanchez says officers have written citations in the past and admits it wasn’t very effective. “Those things we tried didn’t work,” he said. Now the understaffed police department is trying a new approach. Sanchez says officers are now working more closely with the neighbors in the area. Police want the neighbors to help be their eyes and ears as officers promise to step up enforcement. For a couple of days last week, police set up mobile surveillance cameras. This summer, police hope to be positioned in an office at the bus station, watching a live feed from security cameras. “It is going to allow the officers when they do have those monitors to have a better view without being seen,” Sanchez said. Just a few hours after KRQE New 13 interviewed Sanchez, a department spokesman said APD conducted a tact plan at the ATC. Detectives arrested two people accused of having crack cocaine. As for the negative image for the city, Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry says it’s common to see more problems pop up when residents move into downtown areas. They’re more likely to spot the problems and speak up. “When it’s two against one, the community and public safety against crime, that’s when we make big changes and that’s what we’re starting to see downtown,” Berry said. KRQE News 13 asked Berry whether the downtown crime speaks to the bigger issue of homeless, mental health and addiction. “We’re actually leading the nation, and we have other cities across America coming to us to ask us how we’re working with the homeless in our community,” he said. KRQE News 13 asked Berry’s staff to provide evidence of the mayor’s claim that Albuquerque is a national leader in supporting people living with addiction, mental health issues and homelessness. The city provided its own news releases announcing programs for people struggling with those issues. Police say they’ll concentrate on this area but admit they can’t watch the area 24/7 and won’t catch everything. “It’s not something that’s going to fix it tomorrow or a week from now. It is a long term plan,” Sanchez said. A drastic problem requires a drastic method to correct. Not to worry folks, the Canary Clan in on top of this … ONLY 8 ounces of crack is involved … Stand down and rest easy.
So...cops manufacturing crack and selling it is okey-dokey in your book? A better solution would be to end the war on drugs. So, has this policy, which goes in the face of everything we’re familiar with in the US, succeeded? Unquestionably, the answer is YES. These statistics are indicative of two very significant outcomes of decriminalization. First, punitive laws do little if anything, to discourage drug use or possession. And second, drug use generally follows broader societal trends and is not affected one way or the other, by the degree of punishment in place for partaking. One would think that you drug warriors would learn a lesson or two from those results. Don't ping me to read your yella tabloid bullshit. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Only 8 ounces you say. Gosh, that's a felony in New Mexico. New Mexico Drug Possession Laws The most serious controlled substances, including those classified as Schedule I or Schedule II under the controlled substances act, are included here. Among others, this includes: cocaine, crack-cocaine, heroin, meth, GHB, PCP, and more. If you are charged with possessing one of these substances, you will face 4th degree felony charges, along with up to $5,000 in fines and 18 months in prison. **** I'm sure you will call for these drug manufacturers to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, correct? You bleat about "only" 8 ounces - you obviously have no clue how much that actually is or how much it goes for. How much crack cocaine actually costs around the world ...the price of crack around the world varies widely. In Canada, high-grade crack can be purchased on the street for about $130/gram, or as low as $80 for lower-grade drugs. In the United States, though, that number can soar to as high $600 per gram, according to the United Nations World Drug Report. 8 ounces (which you must think is not a lot) equals 226.796 grams. At a cost of $300 per gram (conservatively), 8 ounces turns out to be worth $68,038.80. We're taking serious felonious drug dealing and manufacturing here by the cops. I'm sure you will call for these drug manufacturers to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, correct? Was manufacturing and selling crack a common practice in your department as well? So...cops manufacturing crack and selling it is okey-dokey in your book? A better solution would be to end the war on drugs. Nope. a better solution is to build a fence and make Mexico pay for it. Now, where have I heard that before ... hmmm. All the cocaine in Albuquerque is being brought in by the Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations. Your eradicate the source of the problem ... you no longer have a problem. You say "end the war on drugs" and let cocaine and heroin flow freely in the streets of out cities ... I say "you are an idiot."
Free Thought Project Don't ping me to read your yella tabloid bullshit. It that, yellow tabloid bullshit ... published by FTP and distributed by Deckard.
Only 8 ounces you say. Gosh, that's a felony in New Mexico. Gosh, it is a felony for trafficking, but it is the cheese that baits the trap for the druggies who cause problems in Albuquerque where the situation is out of control.
I will issue a clarion call for the APD to continue their operation and end the drug problem there.
With a little help from their "friends". U.S. Government and Top Mexican Drug Cartel Exposed as Partners Relying on over 100 interviews with current and former government functionaries on both sides of the border, as well as official documents from the U.S. and Mexican governments, Mexico’s El Universal concluded that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the U.S. Justice Department had secretly worked with Mexican drug lords. The controversial conspiring led to increased violence across Mexico, where many tens of thousands have been murdered in recent years, the newspaper found after its year-long probe. The U.S. agents and their shady deals with Mexican drug lords even sparked what the paper called a “secret war” inside Mexico. The newspaper’s investigation also confirmed long-held suspicions that U.S. authorities were signing secret agreements with Mexican drug cartels — especially Sinaloa, which CIA operatives have said was a favorite for use in achieving geo-political objectives. Supposedly without the knowledge or approval of officials in Mexico, ICE and DEA, with a green light from Washington, D.C., made deals with criminal bosses allowing them to avoid prosecution for a vast crime spree that has included mass murder, corruption, bribery, drug trafficking, extortion, and more. In exchange, cartel leaders simply had to help U.S. officials eliminate their competitors — certainly a win-win scenario for crime bosses who prefer to operate without competition or fear of prosecution. As The New American first reported in early 2011, a high-ranking operative with the Sinaloa cartel had outlined elements of the criminal agreements with U.S. authorities in official court documents. “The government of the United States and its various agencies have a long history of providing benefits, permission, and immunity to criminals and their organizations to commit crimes, including murder, in exchange for receiving information against other criminals and other organizations,” trafficker Jesus Vicente “El Vicentillo” Zambada-Niebla argued in U.S. court filings cited by El Universal. The New American has also reported extensively on the Zambada-Niebla case and what it reveals. CIA “Manages” Drug Trade, Mexican Official Says The Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement in drug trafficking is back in the media spotlight after a spokesman for the violence-plagued Mexican state of Chihuahua became the latest high-profile individual to accuse the CIA, which has been linked to narcotics trafficking for decades, of ongoing efforts to “manage the drug trade.” The infamous American spy agency refused to comment. In a recent interview, Chihuahua state spokesman Guillermo Terrazas Villanueva told Al Jazeera that the CIA and other international “security” outfits "don't fight drug traffickers." Instead, Villanueva argued, they try to control and manage the illegal drug market for their own benefit. "It's like pest control companies, they only control," Villanueva told the Qatar-based media outlet last month at his office in Juarez. "If you finish off the pests, you are out of a job. If they finish the drug business, they finish their jobs." Another Mexican official, apparently a mid-level officer with Mexico’s equivalent of the U.S. Department of “Homeland Security,” echoed those remarks, saying he knew that the allegations against the CIA were correct based on talks with American agents in Mexico. "It's true, they want to control it," the official told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity. Credibility issues with employees of the notoriously corrupt Mexican government aside, the latest accusations were hardly earth shattering — the American espionage agency has been implicated in drug trafficking from Afghanistan to Vietnam to Latin America and everywhere in between. Similar allegations of drug running have been made against the CIA for decades by former agents, American officials, lawmakers, investigators, and even drug traffickers themselves. Some of the most prominent officials to level charges of CIA drug trafficking include the former head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Robert Bonner. During an interview with CBS, Bonner accused the American “intelligence” outfit of unlawfully importing a ton of cocaine into the U.S. in collaboration with the Venezuelan government. Even the New York Times eventually covered part of the scandal in a piece entitled "Anti-Drug Unit of C.I.A. Sent Ton of Cocaine to U.S. in 1990." And the agency’s Inspector General, Frederick Hitz, was eventually forced to concede to a congressional committee that the CIA has indeed worked with drug traffickers and obtained a waiver from the Department of Justice in the 1980s allowing it to conceal its contractors’ illicit dealings. Ya gotta break the law to enforces the law? Your selective and situational morality is certainly something to behold In other words you support felonious drug manufacturing and sales of crack cocaine - only as long as the cops are the felons? Yeah - that's pretty much what I expect from you and others of your ilk. Oh - and you're a simpleton thinking this will magically end the drug problem. Well, sonny, it is pretty much what I expected from you ... to distribute this yellow journalism shit that makes the APD manufacturing 8 ounces of crack for a sting operation sound like a violation of the law and a major problem. There is NOTHING to be concerned about ... we are done here. I will waste no more time. But should you there ever be a need for truth and justice to prevail again, everyone should feel free to call on: Moving on now ... Bye, Bye!!!
There is NOTHING to be concerned about ... Good grief, your boot-licking has reached an all-time low. According to some on this forum there's only one way to fix the problem -- make crack cocaine legal.
Portugal has dealt with the problem with successful results. Move to Portugal. Register as a drug user and you'll get counseling instead of a penalty. Then try to find a job as a registered drug user.
When even the cops are manufacturing crack, you know the war on drugs is nothing short of a farce.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#2. To: Deckard, ConservingFreedom, misterwhite, Roscoe, GrandIsland, A K A Stone (#1)
(Edited)
Burque Media exclusively revealed APD’s intentions to become temporary crack manufacturers.
The Alvarado Transportation Center, just south of First and Central, bustles with people riding the Greyhound bus, the Rail Runner and Amtrak trains. For years when tourists stepped onto the streets, they saw more than the cityscape, the peaks of the Sandia Mountains or the true blue New Mexico sky. They also saw the suspected drug dealing, drug using and loitering right out front of the ATC.
The Canary Clan is charged with the responsibility to search impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation. It is eminently qualified to perform this charge by devoting considerable time, deep reflection, careful deliberation, and serious consultation to approach decisions without any particular ideology or agenda. The Canary Clan has a commitment to respect precedent, fairness and a determination to faithfully present the facts.
Long live freedom of speech, long live the Canary Clan and God Bless America!
#3. To: Gatlin (#2)
A drastic problem requires a drastic method to correct.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#4. To: Deckard (#1)
Free Thought Project
#5. To: Gatlin (#2)
(Edited)
ONLY 8 ounces of crack is involved
Possession of Methamphetamine, GHB, Cocaine, Heroin
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#6. To: GrandIsland (#4)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#7. To: Deckard (#3)
A drastic problem requires a drastic method to correct.
#8. To: GrandIsland (#4)
Deckard
#9. To: Deckard (#5)
ONLY 8 ounces of crack is involved
#10. To: Deckard, GrandIsland (#6)
I'm sure you will call for these drug manufacturers to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law...
#11. To: Gatlin (#7)
All the cocaine in Albuquerque is being brought in by the Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#12. To: Gatlin (#9)
Gosh, it is a felony for trafficking, but it is the cheese that baits the trap
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#13. To: Gatlin (#10)
(Edited)
I will issue a clarion call for the APD to continue their operation and end the drug problem there.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#14. To: Deckard (#13)
Yeah - that's pretty much what I expect from you and others of your ilk.
The Canary Clan is charged with the responsibility to search impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation. It is eminently qualified to perform this charge by devoting considerable time, deep reflection, careful deliberation, and serious consultation to approach decisions without any particular ideology or agenda. The Canary Clan has a commitment to respect precedent, fairness and a determination to faithfully present the facts.
Long live freedom of speech, long live the Canary Clan and God Bless America!
#15. To: Gatlin (#14)
the APD manufacturing 8 ounces of crack
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#16. To: Gatlin (#2)
#17. To: misterwhite (#16)
According to some on this forum there's only one way to fix the problem -- make crack cocaine legal.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#18. To: Deckard (#17)
"Portugal has dealt with the problem with successful results."
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