Good Cop, Bad War

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Exceptionally well written with a subject matter so many of us encounter or have a predisposed opinion of, without having actually experienced it first-hand, nor attempted to grasp an opinion outside that of usual public perception. There was an arms race between the criminals and the police which was mostly harming drug users, who needed help not prison, and it was having no effect on the supply and availability of drugs on the streets.

The trouble is that after this has happened a few times in a few cities, the big time dealers start to get very paranoid about their little street dealers introducing anyone new to them, because their experiences now tell them that the new person could easily be an undercover policeman. It will be tempting for those in favour of prohibition to paint Neil Woods as a limp-wristed, bleeding-heart liberal. Against the usual outcry from opposition groups and sections of the security apparatus, Portugal decriminalised drug use, and shifted drug policy from law enforcement to public health. To summarize what I want to say, it's your fucking "war on drugs" that created the mobs, idiot, exactly like your idiotic wars in Iraq, Chechnya, etc. It's a superb book, which has given me more insight into the UK's 'War on Drugs' than anything else I've seen or read.This book is not just about drugs; it is also about lives, the lives of those who are, one way or another, involved in this hideous drama. Los audiolibros del catálogo ilimitado que hayas añadido a tu biblioteca dejarán de estar disponibles cuando finalice tu suscripción, mientras que los audiolibros que hayas comprado son tuyos para siempre y podrás escucharlos incluso después de haber cancelado. Needless to say his marriage had no chance and he could never have a working relationship with his police colleagues. And 2) not only war becomes harder and you can't easily take down the real criminals, but also most vulnerable people loose more, because idiots should "show something in statistics".

There’s a moment in this book, after taking down a particularly nasty gang, a superior congratulations him on “Disrupting the drug flow into this city.

As an undercover police officer with the drugs squad Neil Woods regularly risked his life on the streets dealing with some of the most violent and unpredictable criminals in Britain. But throughout this book, Woods details how, as policing advances, so do Organised Crime Gangs; his work, and the work of undercover drugs agents, has only served to make criminal gangs smarter, harder and more professional.