Smart on Crime, by Kamala Harris: on Drugs

Deal with drug addiction in offenders, but still arrest them

And remember that many of these offenders are small players in the underground business of drug sales and trafficking, and therefore are closely linked with gangs, violence, and gun crimes. While we need to arrest and make all offenders accountable for their crimes, we are finding ways to transform the status quo approach that results in offense-arrest-jail-offense-arrest-jail--a pattern I sometimes call "synchronized drowning"--into a new path of accountability and reintegration that builds stronger, safer communities.