I’m not sure if solely stopping the war on drugs will really solve that much as far as gross police misconduct. Sociopaths will always find a way to get their jollies. If it’s not drugs, they’ll “suspect” that the guy has gun parts up his bum, if not gun parts, then smuggled gold.
What we do need is some method of personality testing new hire police so as to weed out the predators and over-zealous do-gooders BEFORE they hurt the public.
This being said, I’m all for ending the “War on Some Drugs”, and moving to a strategy of treating the addicts.
And to be clear, I’m not really a keen supporter of the death penalty, but this story was far, far, beyond the pale of what should EVER happen in a constitutional democracy.
The “rape” was only part of it; they could have killed the man if he was anesthetized and he had an undiagnosed heart defect or an allergy to the drugs.
