How The War On Drugs Create Violence Summary

The article “How the War on Drugs Create violence”by Danielle Allen, makes an interesting argument about how drug use should be seen as a public health problem instead of a crime violence. The argument is: to legalize marijuana, decriminalize other drugs without creating violence that can damage our community. The urban black communities are more likely to put in risk in mass incarceration, high homicide rates and poor educational outcomes in urban schools. I think the argument is good because the author provides concrete evidence. The author even provides evidence from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. “Americans from all racial groups pursue narcotic-related leisure activities, spending an estimated $100 billion a year

Despite of the evidence, the U.S would hypothetically be an incarceration outlier because they are convicted of drugs chargers. According to the website FiveThirtyEight, reported that only this would reduce the rate of the problem of mass incarceration by about 14 percent. But the article investigates another aspect of the issue. The author claims that there are negative social outcomes if the wars in drugs drive violent crime. Meaning that if they use $100 billion worth of illegal product without a lot of assault and homicide it would be a lot harder. Background data such as Criminology and law enforcement personnel shows example of “criminogenic trends” that creates a higher chance in murder and other violent crimes are gang-and drug-related homicides. This authority of common knowledge determines that this in fact are accurate reasons that backs up the source and provided concrete

Because they list concrete evidence and supporting details to state that the claim is true and in fact that can other connection between the drug war and violence. An economists Brendan O’Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi, is a journal of urban economics source. With highly provided evidence and statistics to claim that the argument being brought up that above-average homicide rate will results from low rates of successful investigation and prosecution of homicide cases. This affects many individual and perhaps costing them their lives by an unfair punishment where they are endanger of mostly like being murder because of the environment. Not only do they state levels of studies in two states but also have effect many cities that the homicide clearance rates had fallen low. For example: In Detroit, policies had “clearance” 30 percent of homicide case without charges in 2009. In the Los Angeles Police Department Bureau report the clearance rate is low rate by 60 percent of cases ending in arrest and prosecution. The clearance rates are more likely to happen when the victim are brown and black according to “Ghettoside” as Jill Leovy explains. After analysing the article and determining its essential point of the argument being made here it's quite a reasonable that the position is valid. Both could have positive and negative claims that can go both ways. With evidence proving that they do judge victims by the