Norm Stamper

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Have Police Departments Become More Militarized Since 9/11?

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 11.12.2011

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New York magazine reported some telling figures last month on how delayed-notice search warrants -- also known as "sneak-and-peek" warrants -- have be...

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Open Letter to the New "Drug Czar" from Another Top Cop: End the Drug War

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Congratulations Gil Kerlikowske on your confirmation as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Bit of an irony, isn't it? Two Seattle police chiefs on opposite sides of the drug war?

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420: Thoughts on Pot vs. Alcohol from a Former Police Chief

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011

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If one of these two drugs is implicated in dire health effects, high mortality rates, and physical violence -- and the other is not -- what are we to make of our nation's marijuana laws?

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Marijuana No Laughing Matter, Mr. President

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Our leader doesn't seem to understand that millions of his interlocutor-constituents are actually quite serious about the issue.

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Ending the "War on Drugs": The Fierce Urgency of...When?

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011

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The nation's longest running armed conflict, the drug war, financed to the tune of about $70 billion a year, is an unmitigated economic disaster.

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