Recovering
Our Honor:
Drug War Issues
for Law Enforcement

Editor: Jim Rosenfield

• Police Corruption Scandal in Los Angeles

  National Urban League Conference on Police Brutality

  Jesse Jackson, Hugh Price, Kweisi Mfume, Jonnie Cochran, 2/25/99

  Racially Disproportionate Outcomes in Drug Cases

  Articles On Three Strikes Law

  Senseless Sentencing: A Federal judge Speaks Out

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Win at all costs
  a 10-part series by Bill Moushy -- "Hundreds of times during the past 10 years, federal agents and prosecutors have pursued justice by breaking the law. They lied, hid evidence, distorted facts, engaged in cover-ups, paid for perjury and set up innocent people in a relentless effort to win indictments, guilty pleas and convictions, a two-year Post-Gazette investigation found."

  Testimony of Alan Dershowitz on Police Perjury
  U.S. House Judiciary Committee, Dec. 1, 1998.

  Video of Testimony

  Recovering Our Honour
  Why Policing Must Reject the War on Drugs" By Constable Gil Puder

  Constable Gil Puder, Video
  on cannabis regulation and against the drug war (March 13, 1999). Thanks to Paul Standiford and Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp

  The Prison-Industrial Complex, The Atlantic Dec. ' 98
  

  Report Shows More Cops Involved in Illegal Activities
  

  An interview with Nick Pastore, former Chief of Police in New Haven, CT, from the Spring 1998 issue of the Drug Policy Letter

  Statement of Edward Ellison, former head of Scotland Yard's anti-drugs squad, March, 1998.

  Address of Dr. Joseph McNamara, former Chief of Police, San Jose and Kansas City; Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

  Police chiefs question merits of drug-war policies, reprinted with permission from Stanford University's Campus Report, May 17, 1995

  Summary of Responses, Hoover Law Enforcement Summit, Stanford, May 9-10, 1995