Reply #1: This is soooo wrong...

[zabet]

especially is this case.

I personally wish they would lower the '2 sugar pack' amount limit. Around here
the average crack-head cannot afford that much crack at the time. The crack heads
have no money to pay court costs, fines and attorneys' fees so here, unless they
have property, they are never arrested (the users). The local police caught one
crackhead smoking acoss the street from the courthouse - they did not arrest him, did
not take his drugs, they carried him back to the carwash he worked at part time and told
his boss man to keep him out of the middle of town whenever he was smoking crack.
I asked one deputy why this attitude towards crack users. He told me it was not cost
effective because they could not get any money out of the average crack abuser therefore
the county ends up supporting them if they lock them up, the county gets the bill if
they have to go to the psychiatics floor of a nearby hospital for detox.
This attitude does not stop the petty theft crimes of all the local crackheads they
let run the streets. We had one that was caught who stole thousands of dollars of
tools fom our shop. We recieved 3 checks for 'restitution' for the amount of .32 -
that's right - 32 cents - a grand total of 96 cents.