Execute them? You sound like Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Regardless of intention, such an attitude will simply lead to existing biases seeping in, and you'll mostly execute the poor and the non-white.
If they’re distributing drugs in large quantities it isn’t bias to call them drug dealers and arrest them. At some point the number of lives lost and generational trauma inflicted by these people has to outweigh our sense of righteousness.
If you're seeing kids in the gutter with a drug problem, you can either be interested in them becoming kids in the gutter without a drug problem or in them not being in the gutter (and thus being able to avoid the drug problem).
Despite what certain people will tell you, drugs don't magically jump at unsuspecting kids to turn them into fiends. Some drugs are extremely chemically addictive but most addictions start as psychological addictions and most of those are either from self-medicating, numbing or for performance enhancement.
And this doesn't even get into why people get into the illegal drug trade to begin with. But reality is much more complex and touchy-feely than a good story about good cops shooting bad criminals trying to corrupt our children.
Countries across Asia have the death penalty for drug trafficking, and it’s working. Vietnam, Bangladesh, Singapore, etc., all aggressively execute drug dealers.
Don't know about others but it seems to not work in Vietnam. While Vietnam has largely decreased the production and use of opium they absolutely failed to do anything to stop the increase in numbers of addicts which has been continually rising since the 90s. Even they are now switching from viewing addiction as a vice to viewing it as a health issue since their policies did nothing to stop people using.
According to UNODC, Vietnam’s drug overdose rate per million people was 36 in 2016. It was over 230 in the US at the same time. You can treat addiction as a health issue while executing drug dealers. That’s what Singapore does.
> According to UNODC, Vietnam’s drug overdose rate per million people was 36 in 2016. It was over 230 in the US at the same time.
How is this relevant to anything that I wrote? Besides, EU has lower drug overdoes rates than Vietnam without any need to execute anybody. Why do you think that we should kill people for these types of crimes when looking at the numbers it appears, to me, to do almost nothing to help solve the problem?
> You can treat addiction as a health issue while executing drug dealers. That’s what Singapore does.
Judging by the number of countries that don't execute anyone and have lower numbers why don't we just skip the killings?
