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troublemaker_42

Oftentimes, you are required to work witrh a partner, which would create a problem in your plans. Add in the fact that your superiors are bound to notice you've made zero marijuana or drug arrests, while everyone else in your department has made several. It could easily backfire on you, and in reality would be about as effective as an agent of change as pissing in the wind would be. Such a straetgy seems like a large sacrifice to make, wioth the return being quite small. I'm not trying to rain on your parade, but an officer who refused to enforece the laws he or she was sworn to uphold simply wouldn't last its the simple reality of the situation, like it or not.

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Jack0

Well then, get in where you fit in and do what you can, when you can do it. You catch a kid with a joint, look the other way. Many officers patrol by themselves, and of course you could always make other arrests to compensate for a lack of marijuana arrests. You'd be surprised how willing a department is willing to keep a "good" officer, especially if they receive written compliments for citizenry and it also all depends of the politics of the department of the city, precinct, parish of ward that you're in. Officers have been given a certain amount of authority to make judgement calls, and use discretion, so oftentimes, its not a career-ending risk to tell a kid to dump out the sack and be on his/her merry way. Perhaps it could be pissing in the wind, but you know a person can always piss downwind instead of into it and I personally think it would accomplish a lot more than sheepish group mentality "activism" that simply preaches to the choir and makes the marijuana-using population appear to be a bunch of dirty hippies who have yet to decide what they want to be when they grow up.

If marijuana is to be legalized, support for its legalization must come from somewhere other than fringe groups who have difficulty swaying peoples' opinions who disagree with them, usually based solely on the way they carry themselves and present their arguements.

How much more powerful might it be for a group of police officers to openly refuse to enforce marijuana laws and perhaps be jailed for this offense? An action of these proportions would be far more effective at swaying new people to the cause of legalization than any dredlocked freak, wearing 12 gauge earrings and smelling of nag champa, approaching a moderate to conservative person to hand them a pamphlet and rant about "dubya", using words like "hey man...it's just so not cool".

To expediate any change taking place, the crowd of dissenters must diversify itself.