If I were a crack-head, I would've thought I died and went to heaven. A planter that grows bags of crack. Woo-ho. One larger ripped plastic baggie - containing about a dozen smaller plastic wrapped bags, with of some yellowed-rock inside. This was found in one of the 'Broken Heart' flower planters this morning at the south-east corner of Lunt and Glenwood. 1353 West Lunt.
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My word! What did you do? Called the police to let them handle it, hopefully. Please be careful. When you start messing with someone's stash you are really putting yourself in danger. I'm at a loss. I honestly don't think I've ever heard of a dealer just letting his/her stuff lay like that. I'm surprised you weren't accosted when you took these pictures. Please, be careful.
Right- I wouldn't touch that garbage. The street has a thousand eyes, and someone is watching that stash from a nearby window making sure the right person picks it up. I wouldn't want a gang fingering me for stealing from them or screwing them around.
Call the police when you see stuff like this.
I did call 911 to handle the matter.
are you going to share?
I am very interested in knowing what if anything the police were able to discern from this find. I'm sure I watch to many of those CSI shows but were they able to "lift any prints"? Craig, were you asked to file a report with the police or is this a case wherein they just do that themselves?
lift prints? joke of a lifetime right there.
fargo woman what city do you live in?
the police can't even get computers in their cars, radios made in this decade, or AIR CONDITIONING IN THE POLICE STATION.
You seriously think they are going to send a plastic bag to the crime lab to sit on a shelf with 6 months of rape kits?
WHERE THE HELL ARE YOUR PRIORITIES?
I wish we would just legalize this rot and develope a layered regulatory structure for it, as we do for liquor, tobacco, and other toxins that people want to abuse themselves with.
We can't save everybody, that's all. Some people will ruin their lives and die young, but are they not doing that anyway? Have our drug laws and the enforcement thereof stopped one person who really wanted to use this rot?
Even the really wicked stuff should be available on a highly regulated and controlled bases. You could, say, have centers people have to check into to obtain the garbage, or a substitute for it.
We lost the war on drugs 100 years ago, the day we started prohibiting this garbage and making it a source of obscene wealth for dozens of criminal cartels, that have been greatly enriched and empowered by being the purveyers of subtances that some people will pay anything and DO anything to get their hands on. We have allocated trillions of dollars to fighting this stuff and are wasting tens of thousands of square feet plus billions of dollars arresting and trying and incarcerating people for possession of this rot.
For what? You do a sting and round up a dozen dealers, a dozen more step into their place the next day. You make inroads into one criminal organization, and another is forming, because there is so much money at stake, and it's made criminal organizations rich and powerful enough to corrupt authorities at all levels.
I wonder, what are we doing? All you can do is make people responsible for their behavior-for what they do. Tell them, you can ingest, inject, or inhale any toxin you want, but YOU WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE for what you do when you're behind that crap. You will NOT be given a pass for murder and other mayhem because you were drunk, high, wired, whatever. Save the cell space for murderers, armed robbers, child abusers, child molesters, and other felons who are a proven danger to others.
I agree with North Coast about reserving jail for predatory criminals, but come on, legalizing crack? It's the same idiocy as legalizing concealed weapons was, sheesh.
I repeat, you will have to have a regulatory structure, with layers of control that reflect the properties of the substance involved.
I agree that crack and crystal are really vicious substances that don't have a redeeming quality. However, you might rather someone have a place to go to get this crap cheaply than be synthasizing and cooking it in your apt. building. Cooking crack causes some of the worst fires I've ever seen, and making crystal can blow the whole neighborhood up.
A rational policy would involve offering the addicts of these subtances substitutes. These substitutes may, in themselves, be nothing good.
But it would be better than what we have now, which is many classes of many criminals living large off the proceeds of murder and the destruction of neighborhoods. Trust me, a lot of the worst people got awfully rich off the ruin of this neighborhood and the destruction of its poorer denizens.
Look at Miami- what the hell does or did ever that place produce? What built those snazzy condos on Brickell Blvd and the lavish houses with the high walls in Coconut Grove? That place is the biggest drug portal in the country. You can believe that crowd doesn't want decriminalization, because it will gut their profits.
My theory, which I'll admit has yet to be tested, is that, once everything is legal and available on some basis, even if only by appt in a sheltered place, people will settle for the milder stuff. A few will still do meth and crack- there is no salvation for some people.
But at least we will make the trade unprofitable for the criminals. At least addicts will be somewhat less motivated to push people off train platforms to get the dough for the stuff.
We were handed an expensive and incredibly destructive lesson in the effects of prohibition during the 20s. What did we learn? We learned completely nothing. We are still dealing with the criminal cartel so enriched by Prohibition, that corrupted every local government plus tens of thousands of working-class white boys; and now many new organizations have been born and have thrived in the time of the War Against Drugs?
When will we learn?
blue asked me three questions: First - "What city do you live in?" My answer: Chicago. Second - "You seriously think they are going to send a plastic bag to a crime lab to sit on a shelf with 6-months of rape kits?" My answer comes in two parts: one - the fact that there might be 6-months of rape kits sitting on shelves should not preclude the fact that a crime lab is in place to help solve many kinds of crimes, not just rapes; selling drugs is a crime that has far reaching effects, not the least of which is influencing the comission of other crimes. two - the fact that there may be 6-months of rape kits sitting on shelves is a serious problem and should itself be addressed for surely the belief that justice delayed is justice denied stands as true for the victim as it does for the culprit. However, allowing other crimes to go uninvestigated altogether is not an answer. The final question was, "Where the hell are your priorities?" That is an open question that, depending on how it is interpreted, could mean that blue believes I think drug crimes should be investigestigated at the expence of crimes involving rape. But that would be assinine so I doubt that is what he is saying. Perhaps the question wasn't really meant for me personnally, but for the people in charge of the crime lab or perhaps for the people in charge of creating and overseeing the budget pertaining to law enforcement in this city? Perhaps blue is irrate over the choices law enforcement has to make regarding proper crime investigation - basing those choices on budgetary concerns and lack of man-power rather than simply the fact that the science is in place to find the culprits and putting it to good use? So, blue, what are you really asking - an who?
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