Wine Quote by Michelle Alexander

Many people don't realize that financial incentives have been built into the drug war that guarantee that law enforcement will continue to arrest extraordinary…

— Michelle Alexander

“As if the free military equipment, training, and cash grants were not enough, the Reagan administration provided law enforcement with yet another financial incentive…

— Michelle Alexander

“Detroit, for example, a new police commissioner took over in 1971 and began implementing a more Nixonian approach to illicit drugs. Chief John Nichols…

— Radley Balko

“Before we begin our tour of the drug war, it is worthwhile to get a couple of myths out of the way. The first…

— Michelle Alexander

“Between 1960 and 1990, for example, official crime rates in Finland, Germany, and the United States were close to identical. Yet the U.S. incarceration…

— michelle alexander

“Officials in the state’s Department of Public Safety executed an operation that, at a stroke, seized more than $1.6 billion in drugs from organized…

— Tom Wainwright

“The resistance within law enforcement to the drug war created something of a dilemma for the Reagan administration. In order for the war to…

— Michelle Alexander

“The critical point is that thousands of people are swept into the criminal justice system every year pursuant to the drug war without much…

— Michelle Alexander

States began to realize how much money they were spending on incarceration and how much money they were spending fighting this ludicrous war on…

— Ayelet Waldman

The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison…

— Michelle Alexander

In the war on drugs, state and state law enforcement agencies have been rewarded in cash by the federal government - through programs like…

— Michelle Alexander

The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is…

— Ellen Willis