ROTTERDAM — A Schenectady man faces a felony drug charge after state troopers pulled over a taxi cab on Route 890 in Rotterdam Wednesday and found the passenger with several glassine envelopes containing heroin, State Police said.
Katroy Fisher, 33, is charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, troopers said.
He was arraigned and sent to the Schenectady County jail on $80,000 bond pending a court appearance Monday, troopers said.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The practice of spending over a half million for each person convicted is unsustainable.
Plus if they have a baby mama and kids we get to support them for a decade too.
Is it really worth spending a million dollars because someone had a pocket full of drugs?
I really believe the million of the taxpayers dollars spent, is a worse crime than the guy in the cab.
Has fifty or more years of this method done anything to slow the flow of drugs at all?
plus the millions on rehab....relapse.....rehab......relapse......
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
uthe bigger problem are the people in denial....that this is a problem...likened to the drunk who sits at a bar all day and then drives home.......these people are still around....
dealers will always be....as long as info is there to get them off the streets.....who's on the take.....who can you trust....
Spending a half million dollars on each dealer arrested is not a workable solution.
The cops get half million dollar homes, the judges drive Escalades, the prison industrial complex flourishes and 600 homeowners in the county a year, lose their homes because taxes go up 10% a year, trying to sustain the unsustainable.
25 million a year in the county to have the illusion that we are really doing something about drug use.
100% wasted money.
We cut funding for schools, we cut other programs that help people.
For what? To keep the cops living large and keep the prison industry generously healthy.
We tried life sentences and failed to even put a dent in drug use.
Those sentences have been commuted because we realized we could not afford to pay 5-10 million dollars for each drug dealer arrested to be imprisoned for life.
It's not denial. It is reality.
You can't keep spending our kids future on absolute waste.
Drug use and drug dealing are symptoms of poverty.
Taking more homes to pay for their imprisonment causes more than it helps.
I would rather see the government going after dealers for not paying taxes on profits and putting tax liens on their properties.
I would rather see a drug dealer held responsible when a customer overdoses, and sued in court to take everything he owns.
These ideas would make the dealers pay for the results of their actions.
Making homeowners pay is ridiculously stupid.
As the system stands now, the drug dealers go to prison.
Who's the victim?
Not the State, they get paid well for keeping the prisoners.
Not the cops, they get paid well for supplying the prisons with customers.
Not the courts.
Not the cities.
The taxpayers are the victims of the war on drugs.
Every single time it's the taxpayer.
1 out of every 25 people will be a future drug prisoner.
Over a trillion dollars has been spent fighting drugs.
Your share of the drug war costs $400/year for each person in your family.
Over 2 million people in prison at $50,000/year is $100 billion dollars a year just to feed, house and clothe them.
It's OK, we can just keep raising taxes.
Something has to change.
Beating drug dealers by smothering them with million dollar bills is not an option that can continue.
Arrest the drug dealers!
Arrest the fireworks people!
Arrest the motorcycles!
Arrests cost tons of money.
They solve nothing.
They leave almost every family with a convicted felon as a member that will need help for the rest of their lives.
Drug use can't be stopped by causing more poverty.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
The only denial here is the denial that the drug war has been one of the biggest wastes of money in the US ever.
Some people think that throwing money at problems will allow them to sleep better.
The drug war allows for a expanded amount of funds for our police and other agencies, even though all that money turned out to not solve the problem they continue to collect those funds to fight it. Everyone knows how bad the war on drugs failed but they want the money, that is the only reason drugs are still criminalized.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
The drug war allows for a expanded amount of funds for our police and other agencies, even though all that money turned out to not solve the problem they continue to collect those funds to fight it. Everyone knows how bad the war on drugs failed but they want the money, that is the only reason drugs are still criminalized.
The cops and DAs, judges and elected officials who stand for the eternal Drug War, through outright complicity with the drug traffickers; these proponents of everlasting war, filling the prisons with another generation of children are themselves addicts, drug war addicts. Like all addicts they pleas for support, to help them get their next fix. They do so under the guise of public safety and public service. The reality is they have transformed America into a war zone in every city. With themselves as the beneficiaries of the war, reaping the profits from the safety of the suburbs.
After devouring more than ONE TRILLION US taxpayer dollars, while drugs remain freely available to our children, we must examine this policy.
All efforts must be directed towards rehabilitation and harm reduction.
All funding for captivation and punishment must be stopped.
It is time to recognize drug addiction as a medical condition and not a reason to throw people away by the millions.
If a parent finds his child using drugs, would locking him in a cage for years be the correct treatment?
Well if the government insists on raising all of our children they need to stop this type of treatment.
We need more sheriffs like Joe Arpaio. He believes that jail should not be a pleasant experience. He charges the inmates for their meals and even has them sleeping in tents. He figures if it is good enough for our fighting men and women than it is good enough for our inmates.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
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