Measure Y

Police against prohibition
Dan Abendschein, Pasadena Weekly, 10/19/06

"At a recent Santa Monica city council meeting about Measure Y, a ballot initiative that would make adult marijuana use the police department's “lowest priority,” activists brought out a unique speaker: A retired New Jersey state cop who is calling for the legalization of drug use. Lt. Jack Cole heads up an organization called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP, which boasts 5,000 members from the law enforcement field nationwide."

“We are opposed to this ordinance because it would remove our ability to investigate more suspicious crimes after using marijuana as probable cause,” -Acting Santa Monica Police Chief Phillip Sanchez

Huh? There is a disconnect in Acting Chief Sanchez's logic.

“I don't think they should be enforcing just to make people easier to grab… law enforcement is always easier if you take away people’s freedom, but I wouldn’t want to live in a country like that,” -Lt. Jack Cole

Nicely put.
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