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Law Enforcement Against Prohibition |
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Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
27 Austin Road, Medford, MA 02155
info@leap.cc (781) 393-6985 http://www.leap.cc
LEAPBoard of Directors Jack A. Cole
Executive Director – Massachusetts
Peter Christ
Treasurer – New York
Edward Ellison
Director – The United Kingdom
John A. Gayder
Secretary – Ontario
Walter McKay
Director – Canada
Judge Eleanor Schockett
Director – Recruiting, Florida
Howard J. Wooldridge
Director – Media, Colorado
Advisory Board Hon. Larry Campbell
Mayor of Vancouver, British Colombia, Former Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Hon. Warren W. Eginton
Judge, US District Court, Connecticut
Hon. Gustavo de Greiff
Former Attorney General of Colombia, South America
Hon. Gary E. Johnson
Former Governor of the State of New Mexico
Hon. John L. Kane
Judge, US District Court, Colorado
Hon. Whitman Knapp
Judge, US District Court, New York
Sheriff Bill Masters
Sheriff, San Miguel County, CO
Dr. Joseph McNamara
Former Chief, San Jose PD, California
Mr. Patrick V. Murphy
Former Commissioner, NYPD, New York
Mr. Robert P. Owens
Former chief, Oxnard PD, California
Hon. Robert Sweet
Judge, US District Court, New York
Mr. Francis Wilkinson
Former Chief Constable, Gwent Police Force, South Wales, UK
About LEAP
After three decades of fueling the U.S. war on drugs with over half a trillion tax dollars and increasingly punitive policies, our court system is choked with ever-increasing prosecutions of nonviolent drug violations and our quadrupled prison population has made building prisons this nation's fastest growing industry. We have imprisoned more than 2.2 million of our citizens and every year we arrest an additional 1.6 million for nonviolent drug offenses—more per capita than any country in the world. The United States has 5 percent of the population of the world but 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Despite all that, illicit drugs are cheaper, more potent, and easier to get than they were 30 years ago. Meanwhile people are still dying in our streets and drug barons continue to grow richer than ever before. This scenario must be the very definition of a failed policy.
Current and former members of law enforcement have recently created a new and important drug-policy reform group called LEAP. The membership of LEAP believe that to save lives and lower the rates of disease, crime and addiction, as well as to conserve tax dollars, we must end drug prohibition.
The stated U.S. drug policy goals of lessening the incidents of crime, drug addiction, juvenile drug use and stemming the flow of illegal drugs into this country have not been achieved. The failed policy of fighting a war on drugs has only magnified our problems but the U.S. still insists on continuing this war and also pressuring governments of other countries to perpetuate these unworkable policies. LEAP believes a system of regulation and control is more effective than one of prohibition.
LEAP is a tax exempt, international, nonprofit, educational entity based in the United States.
The mission of LEAP is (1) To educate the public, the media, and policy makers, to the failure of current drug policy by presenting a true picture of the history, causes and effects of drug abuse and the crimes related to drug prohibition; (2) To create a speakers bureau staffed with knowledgeable and articulate former drug-warriors who describe the impact of current drug policies on: police/community relations; the safety of law enforcement officers and suspects; police corruption and misconduct; and the financial and human costs associated with current drug policies; (3) To restore the public’s respect for law enforcement, which has been greatly diminished by its involvement in imposing drug prohibition; (4) To reduce the multitude of harms resulting from fighting the war on drugs and to lessen the incidence of death, disease, crime, and addiction by ultimately ending d...Read entire document
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