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Fresno Cops Kill Armed Man Fleeing Meth Bust
A Sanger, California, man is dead after being shot by police as he first pulled a weapons, then tried to flee in an undercover drug bust gone bad.
Undercover Work
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Bad cops pay out big in New York, a sheriff cleans house in Florida, a sticky-fingered cop gets in trouble in North Carolina, and a California cop gets caught with his fingers in the dope jar.
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Drug Cops Hatch Foolproof Plan to Arrest Every Teenager in America
[inline:marijuanaheart.jpg align=right]In case you haven't heard the news yet, it looks like police are going to win the drug war after all. Violence and corruption are bad enough, but if they're capable of something as sickeningly devious as this, I'm not sure I see the point in dragging things out any further.
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Texas Officer in Drug Investigation Kills Armed Man
A Texas man is dead after allegedly running away from, then pulling a gun on, members of Texas combined task force doing a drug investigation.
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Bronx Narc Kills Unarmed Teen
An NYPD narc shot and killed a teenager in his own home as he tried to flush a small amount of marijuana down a toilet. The local community was not happy.
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Michigan Deputy Kills Drug Suspect Dragging Him With Car
A Detroit-area man who tried to drive away from a drug arrest was shot and killed by a deputy hanging onto his car door. He becomes the sixth person to be killed in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year.
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The Top Ten Domestic US Drug Policy Stories of 2011 [FEATURE]
2011 was a busy year in drug policy. Here is our selection of the biggest stories of the year here at home.
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Two More US Drug War Deaths This Week
We're only halfway through January, and we already have four dead in drug war incidents so far this year. This week, two allegedly armed men were shot and killed by police in separate incidents in Arkansas and California.
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Sheriff Will Pay You $100 to Wear a Wire and Ask People to Sell You Drugs
[inline:undercoverbuy.jpg align=right]Stupid silver-bullet strategies to win the war on drugs are as common as the reckless zealots who dream them up, but rarely does one find an example so deeply absurd and irresponsible as this.
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Dallas Narc Kills Armed Man on Amtrak Train
An undercover operation on an Amtrak train in Dallas left one man dead, this year's 47th domestic US drug war fatality.