As Good As Its People: on Drugs


Jimmy Carter: We stopped treating alcoholism as a crime; that helped

The Drug Enforcement Agency, created in 1973, has already been tainted by scandals that forced its director to resign.

Our overcrowded court system is now a major cause of crime.

We should encourage local police to give priority to violent crimes- assault, robbery, rape, muggings, murders. When I was Governor of Georgia, we stopped treating alcoholism as a crime to provide increased medical help to alcoholics and to free our police and courts to concentrate on violent crimes.

Source: Campaign Speech in Detroit, in “Good As Its People,” p. 220 Oct 15, 1976

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