{"id":14544,"date":"2014-12-06T11:20:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T16:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14544"},"modified":"2014-12-06T11:20:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T16:20:28","slug":"huffpo-houston-police-chief-calls-drug-war-a-miserable-failure-says-feds-need-to-lead-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14544","title":{"rendered":"HuffPo: Houston Police Chief Calls Drug War A &#8216;Miserable&#8217; Failure, Says Feds Need To Lead Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/12\/05\/houston-police-chief-marijuana_n_6277018.html?utm_hp_ref=crime&#038;ir=Crime\">Houston Police Chief Calls Drug War A &#8216;Miserable&#8217; Failure, Says Feds Need To Lead Reform<\/a> by Matt Ferner:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The drug war is a &#8220;miserable&#8221; failure and the federal government needs to take the lead on reforming marijuana policy, Houston Police Chief Charles McLelland said Friday in a radio interview.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;Most of us understand, we do believe, those of us that are law enforcement executives, that the war on drugs, the 1980 drug policies, was a miserable failure, there&#8217;s no doubt about that,&#8221; McLelland said to Dean Becker, host of &#8220;Cultural Baggage,&#8221; a radio show focused on the war on drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement needs to find the &#8220;most efficient and effective&#8221; ways to keep communities safe, McLelland said, and in order to do that, &#8220;we have to think differently about crime, crime prevention, drug rehabilitation, substance abuse, mental illness &#8212; there&#8217;s a whole host of things that we need to treat differently than we did 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 15 years ago.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A miserable failure <em>and<\/em> destructive of privacy rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: Houston Police Chief Calls Drug War A &#8216;Miserable&#8217; Failure, Says Feds Need To Lead Reform by Matt Ferner: The drug war is a &#8220;miserable&#8221; failure and the federal government needs to take the lead on reforming marijuana policy, Houston &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14544\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14545,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544\/revisions\/14545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}