The Drug Warriors May be Venal, but They Aren’t Stupid

“[In] a study published in the journal Justice Quarterly, criminologists J. Mitchell Miller and Lance H. Selva found that [...] ‘police agencies often delayed making busts of suspected drug houses until most of the drug supply had been sold. They waited until the drugs had already hit the streets so that they could maximize their forfeiture bounty.’ ”  To Serve and Protect has become Harass and Collect.