Cops Against the Drug War

Address of Dr. Joseph McNamara, former Chief of Police, San Jose and Kansas

City; Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Police chiefs question merits of drug-war policies, reprinted with

permission from Stanford University's Campus Report, May 17, 1995

Summary of Responses, Hoover Law Enforcement Summit, Stanford, May 9 and 10,

1995

We are in the process of making permission requests to reprint various

articles about the Hoover Law Enforcement summit, and other articles by Dr.

McNamara, from publications including the New York Times, the Boston Globe,

the San Jose Mercury News, Stanford, the San Mateo Times and others. We are

also hoping to get permission to post a set of articles from an issue of

Police News, in which the President of the National Association of Veteran

Police Officers, as well as former Secretary of State George Shultz and

other prominent conservatives, all advocate decriminalization. The items

already posted here describe the growing disillusionment with the War on

Drugs in the law enforcement community, the growing support for reform, and

some of the ways in which the Drug War corrupts police forces and encourages

a war mentality that is at odds with police officer's intended role as

officers of the peace.