Fighting Drugs
Bob Martinez (director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy) in “Morale Is Key to Local Police Fighting Drugs” (Commentary, Oct. 23) may have reached a new high point in the insane rhetoric of the “war on drugs” when he compares the drug traffickers rather than the drug enforcement police to “secret police in a dictatorship.”
What a role reversal!
The tactics of drug enforcement agencies nationwide closely parallel the tactics of the darkest of all totalitarian secret police--infiltration, betrayal, entrapment, midnight raids--you name it, they do it.
JOHN A. SCHMIDT
Los Angeles
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