Saintly police officers do not cure heroin addictions.
But shitty policing does?
That certain provides the mental health benefit of having someone to blame for all your problems, yeah?
Ends justify the means? What will you do when the same means are used on you?
You're not achieving the ends with your means, though.
We haven't tried my means.
but decriminalization does, at least it has had stunning results in Portugal. But thugs are going to be thugs and most people seem to like to have the local thugs in blue do their shit.
Decriminalization is a good strategy. Unsurprisingly, it also has nothing to do with police ethics.
Reverse stupidity is not intelligence. Not shooting someone in the head does not cure cancer is not an argument for shooting someone in the head.