{"id":1985,"date":"2011-05-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/a-radical-plan-to-stop-many-police-deaths-legalize-drugs.html"},"modified":"2011-05-25T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T12:00:00","slug":"a-radical-plan-to-stop-many-police-deaths-legalize-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/a-radical-plan-to-stop-many-police-deaths-legalize-drugs.html","title":{"rendered":"A radical plan to stop many police deaths: legalize drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"Retired State Police Major Neill Franklin, Executive Director of\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leap.cc\/author\/NeillF\/\">\nLaw Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)<\/a>,\ntold\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xdlnBeHoawA\">\nJudge Napolitano<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;Prohibition didn&#8217;t work in the past, and it&#8217;s not working today&#8221;.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xdlnBeHoawA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\nFranklin said LEAP now represents 50,000 members worldwide.\n<p>\nFew issues unite people across the political sprectrum like this one,\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/misplaced-priorities-over-incarcerate-under-educate-naacp.html\">from the NAACP to Grover Norquist<\/a>.\n<p>\nWe don&#8217;t need a private prison in Lowndes County to lock up more people.\nWe need fewer people in prison so we can afford to educate people.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retired State Police Major Neill Franklin, Executive Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), told Judge Napolitano: &#8220;Prohibition didn&#8217;t work in the past, and it&#8217;s not working today&#8221;. Franklin said LEAP now represents 50,000 members worldwide. Few issues unite people across the political sprectrum like this one, from the NAACP to Grover Norquist. We don&#8217;t [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,1113,15,72,178],"tags":[2581,77,8705,4034,2883,80,3129,4110,1048,79,2712,76,82],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-education","category-incarceration","category-vlcia","tag-deaths","tag-drugs","tag-education","tag-judge-napolitano","tag-law-enforcement-against-prohibition","tag-leap","tag-legalization","tag-neill-franklin","tag-prevention","tag-prohibition","tag-rehabilitation","tag-violence","tag-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-w1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}