We can’t arrest our way out of the drug problem

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We can’t arrest our way out of the drug problem

20 August 2014

You can’t solve a public health crisis by locking people up. Jim Pugel knows this. After more than 30 years with the Seattle Police Department, he’s seen first-hand that sending people to prison for low-level, nonviolent drug offenses doesn’t work.

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