Published LTE: Shreveport, LA Times–THANKS FOR SHINING LIGHT ON A SHAMEFUL PRACTICE

 Author: Howard Wooldridge

Re: “Forfeiture law stacked against Louisiana property owners” ( June 22 ): Thank you for lighting a candle on the shameful, dark practice of my colleagues to go around state law to seize property from citizens.  Worse, we now focus more on drug dealers than rapists, child molesters and those possessing child porn.  Why? Because we can only take money from drug dealers, not pedophiles.

Over the past 40 years of drug prohibition/war on drugs, my profession has become addicted to the $70 billion in tax dollars you give us every year.  Even that is not enough, as Dr.  Fraser pointed out so well.

When will we become as wise as our grandparents and repeal our prohibition?

Howard Wooldridge

Retired detective/officer

Drug policy specialist

Citizens Opposing Prohibition

Adamstown, Md.