The US Opioid Crisis

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(08-09-2017, 10:17 PM)jason Wrote: I'm off the opinion that they save people from overdosing to prosecute them. Sure sometimes they they don't have anything else on them, but in a lot of cases they have paraphernalia, dope, stolen shit, or other drugs on their person. At first people may roll their eyes when I say this, but when my cousin was shot while on duty, her partner shot her assailant 5-6 times. They then rushed him to the hospital (spending all kinds of money to keep him alive) so they can prosecute him, and sentence him to 80 years.

That's because if her assailant died, he'd be called a gentle giant/hardworking young man/loving father, who was turning his life around and about to go to community college. His friend would tell people he didn't attack her and was shot in the back with his hands up.

Then the city would be burned to the ground while people looted, and she and her partner would be called racist liars and murderers, and be sent to a nationally covered trial. Her career and social life would be ended, she would spend all her money and go into massive debt defending herself in court, and then even if found innocent, would still be out of a job, virtually unemployable, and in debt.

You know, like how all police shootings have gone for a couple years now.

Buuuuuuuut that's a different thread from the drug epidemic. Lol