tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post4054773402844295127..comments2024-03-15T05:45:01.402-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Possession busts driving increased drug arrests: States tired of footing the billGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-86711819776905708032011-12-01T08:31:55.350-06:002011-12-01T08:31:55.350-06:00So, I don't really believe it may have success...So, I don't really believe it may have success.muebles gironahttp://www.muebles-en-girona.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-48578679987306770452011-03-15T11:20:48.176-05:002011-03-15T11:20:48.176-05:00LEO’s are punks. It’s easier to bully the users th...LEO’s are punks. It’s easier to bully the users than to go after the people they are afraid of. They see what happens to the LEO’s on the border who try to stop drug traffic. The Feds under the Husain administration obviously don’t want to do anything on the border. How else can our enemies sneak into this country. Best thing a freedom loving citizen can do if they want to enjoy a toke is to be smart about it and not get caught. If they’re on paper keep a steady supply of Stinger around for those costly yet unreliable drug test and say as little as possible to those pesky PO’s. In Texas, it also helps to be White.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-4234082614959442132011-03-12T13:26:36.278-06:002011-03-12T13:26:36.278-06:00The same simpletons who fail to profit from experi...The same simpletons who fail to profit from experience continue to fill the prisons. There is a reason the count room uses a count board. It is tangible. You can touch and see the assigned tags. <br /><br />I believe that every judge should be 100% accountable for those they incarcerate. Judges should be consulted each & every time there is overcrowding, whining offenders wanting cell moves or when to move someone to punitive segregation. The dots are not being connected. It seems as though many are not cooperating with the system. No, District Attorneys & county jails want to send them to prison to avoid cost overruns. <br /><br />Let's be sure to continue the same things that led to overcrowding. Sentence them and see if there is enough room. If there is not, you should get the adoption papers ready.DeathBreathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-58502201611328168632011-03-12T11:29:49.588-06:002011-03-12T11:29:49.588-06:00PAPA, you realize, don't you, that a) the feds...PAPA, you realize, don't you, that a) the feds control the border, not the state, and b) "closing down" the border would collapse Texas' economy, both because of needed imports and the fact that Mexico is a huge export market. That's <a href="http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2006/09/border-economics-101.html" rel="nofollow">Border Economics 101</a>.<br /><br />If it were as easy as you imply to "stop the flow of drugs coming across the border," they'd have done it already.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-61235034450163301042011-03-12T09:02:38.783-06:002011-03-12T09:02:38.783-06:00Until the Texas Legislators take control of the Bo...Until the Texas Legislators take control of the Border, Close it down, stop the flow of drugs coming across the border...it is a no win situation. Controlling the source is the first solution. Where is the source coming from? comes across the border with the illegals. Send the illegals back. Get them out of the Texas Prison System and off the Texas Taxpayers payroll. Install the necessary equipment to document those that are illegal and can be monitored at the check points, by the law enforcers, to stop the flow of drugs and illegals.The money that can be saved from the criminal justice system action against low level possessors could be used to monitor the borders and illegals.Legalize the MJ it would stop a bunch of what is happening. GET REAL, what is being done now is NOT WORKING, what do you do when something doesn't WORK, change it.PAPAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05778667657874134437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-36632805910960883232011-03-12T07:56:09.948-06:002011-03-12T07:56:09.948-06:00Legalize marijuana and tax it. Might solve a lot ...Legalize marijuana and tax it. Might solve a lot of the budget shortfall.DEWEYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-76130890970057304992011-03-12T03:49:45.023-06:002011-03-12T03:49:45.023-06:00Imprisoning drug addicts for possession may not be...Imprisoning drug addicts for possession may not be the sole driver of mass incarceration, but if you look at the numbers of those who had their first run-in with the legal system because of a possession charge and realize what it did to their lives, you might have a better understanding of the consequences. <br /><br />Difficulty obtaining employment, housing, or even food stamps because of a blight on their record can often cause problems that lead to other criminal acts which may not have occurred had the user not been arrested in the first place. Millions of inmates across the nation can attest to this fact. Roughly half of the current inmates in our prisons were first arrested on simple possession charges.<br /><br />Where would be if Bill Clinton had been arrested for possessing the joint that he didn't inhale? And what would have happened if George Bush had been convicted for his cocaine? The vast majority of people would outgrow their curiosity with dope if simply left alone like Bill and George.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-38129781391573276512011-03-11T22:35:36.168-06:002011-03-11T22:35:36.168-06:00But Grits, if a cop can only cite, as one HPD offi...But Grits, if a cop can only cite, as one HPD officer stated, "How are we going to punish them?" Don't ya just love it? :~)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-34013680019345365572011-03-11T15:54:48.094-06:002011-03-11T15:54:48.094-06:00Last week when Rep. Dutton laid out the same bill,...Last week when Rep. Dutton laid out the same bill, Rep Carter, rookie from Plano said she would charge all possession as a felony. With this mentality coming in to the leg. we are in serious trouble. There was lots of testimony in favor of the bill but the rational was for medical use and decriminalization. I only wish the emphasis had been on the financial and drug treatment.Texas Mavericknoreply@blogger.com