Check out this great video from LEAP, in which executive director Neill Franklin explains how prohibition has destroyed the relationship between law enforcement officers and the communities they police. “When I talk to young people, they say the only reason you come into our neighborhood is to search us for drugs,” says Franklin, a 33-year law enforcement veteran. “I want us — cops — to be the ones that kids can come up to in the streets when they have an issue or a problem. Not run in the other direction.”
