how to make money selling drugs. it exposes the journey that drug dealers go on, how they make money and so on. what are the key conclusions that you personally have drawn about the marijuana debate? well, that we re going about it all wrong. we need to stop throwing people in jail. stop using s.w.a.t. teams and military action in our neighborhoods to find them and throw them in jail for long periods of time. i mean, 853,000 arrests for marijuana violations in 2010. 750,000 people arrested for possession. one person arrested every 19 seconds. well, not to mention that those arrests are disproportionately targeting minorities and people in poor neighborhoods. so that s all the weakest members of our society are being targeted. we should be helping them, not targeting them. having said all this, what we
don t want to do is encourage the use of america to think that all drugs are fine. how do you tackle the easing of legislation perhaps with marijuana with the harder stuff? i think we need to educate the youth of america. i mean, the film how to make money selling drugs is targeted to kids. we want young people to see this movie. that s why it s spoken so plainly. young people are on the internet. they see a lot. but what they don t have are adults talking to them straight, telling them how it is so they can make educated choices about what to do in the right circumstances and what not to do. let s take a little clip from the movie. this is one of the young drug dealers that is interviewed. ninth grade. up to that point i was a student that didn t participate. then they were like, how many
is in terms of a drug or a gang war. talk about the gun thing i don t think is, it s not working, it s not helping solve the problem. think about what you are saying. there are areas of the city that have high homicide rate. area of the same city that have low homicide rate. same city. same gun population. bob: but the north shore of chicago is not a placey they have big drug areas. eric: it has to be people in the district, not for people in these districts. bob: ask the los angeles police department who take on gangs. they finally made headway. they move the operation around the country. make money selling drugs. andrea: the same thing happened in new york city. strict gun control. crime running rampant. giuliani came in and put more cops on the street. allowed them to do the job. shoot to wound.
neighborhood, hitting them where it hurts most, their pockets. you drive away all the business and they re not going to make any money selling drugs. it will push people inside and it will shut down their street markets. we re going to effect a whole group of individuals who are affiliated with the gangster disciples. they re going to hear about it on the street. as soon as they start getting popped in here,veryone on the street is going to know. they re going to know. but there s no guarantee the operation will work. it could make tensions inside the jail worse and provoke retaliation against police out on the street. taking on the gangster disciples is dangerous business. there s been no greater menace to more chicago communities for the past 30 years.
take place on the street. the sheriff s police will saturate the disciples neighborhoods, hitting them where it hurts most, their pockets. drive away all the business. they are not going to make any money selling drugs. it will push people inside. it will shut down their street markets. we are going to affect the whole group of individuals who are affiliated with the gangster disciples. they are going to hear it on the street. as soon as they get popped in here. they are going to know. but there s no guarantee the operation will work. it could make tensions inside the jail worse and provoke retaliation against police on the street. taking on the gangster disciples is dangerous business. there s been no greater menace