Good Cop, Bad War

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Not only doesn't it work, it also ensures criminals make lots of money and the police have to devote a lot of their resources to enforcing the prohibition. K. Made up exclusively of law enforcement figures, LEAP campaigns for an end to the drug war, and for drug policy to be based on evidence. On a personal level I understand the need to justify past behaviour, about which he is now sceptical, but this is less interesting for the reader.

It's hard to believe that Neil Woods actually experienced all the situations he discusses - you imagine for it to be falling straight out of a gangster movie scene, or for Leonardo DeCaprio to walk in like i'm watching THE DEPARTED.But herein lay the problem: no matter how often he knocked a villain off his perch (I say “he” for they most often were men), no matter how many he took down, there was always another to take their place. Despite the seriousness of the story, there are some humorous passages that will mitigate the heartache you can feel toward some of the individuals described. But after years on the streets, spending time with the vulnerable users at the bottom of the chain, Neil began to question the seemingly futile war he was risking both his life and sanity for. Once drugs are decriminalized everything can change for the better, especially if help is offered in place of persecution. Good Cop, Bad War is an intense account of the true effects of the War on drugs and a gripping insight into the high pressure world of British undercover policing.

Throughout his deployments in towns and cities across the UK he dealt with psychopaths and villains who preyed on addicts, torturing, maiming and killing those who crossed them.They will gang-rape your girlfriend if you default on a debt or you could find yourself on crutches for the rest of your life after having acid poured on your knees. For even bigger line of events: your responsibility -> social, education problems -> criminals -> war -> smarter criminals -> people suffer -> brave new world.

As an outpatient psychologist in the US, I fight the "war" in a different way and it was very informative to see the story from a detective's perspective.We would scratch the surface of a murder and almost invariably find a turf war between dealers, or a gang protecting their supply network.

I hope that within my lifetime we will see changes in these policies like some of the cannabis legalisation that has taken off in some of the U.It will be tempting for those in favour of prohibition to paint Neil Woods as a limp-wristed, bleeding-heart liberal. Neil Woods spent fourteen years (1993-2007) infiltrating drug gangs as an undercover police officer – befriending and gaining the trust of some of the most violent, unpredictable criminals in Britain. You end up sympathising more with the users (who end up in prison) and disliking the drug squads, who only care about increasing the number of convictions and not helping people.