Many innocent people have been victimized by the state thanks to drug raids that have taken place over the last several decades that the war on drugs has been maintained.

The wrongful assaults that have been initiated against American people have resulted in millions of dollars in damages being sought through lawsuits against the state for their criminal actions.

drug raids provide too much risk.

They put the department at risk by putting officers in danger, they endanger the community, and negatively financially impact the state itself. You might think that there is the financial benefit to them to confiscate whatever drugs or money that they target through the raid, but they aren't always successful in confiscating anything, and sometimes those raids are on the wrong home entirely.

It is never acceptable for a raid to be conducted on a wrong address and yet it has happened on multiple occasions and people have wrongfully been assaulted as a result.

Is there no other crime going on that those officers might be able to focus on in their communities? Yet those department heads still focus on victimless crimes. They insist on funneling resources toward dangerous drug raids that promote too much violence, and are initiated against mostly non-violent individuals who are guilty of victimless crimes.

In Texas, just recently a string of drug raids were conducted there, resulting in a number of arrests. Thousands of no-knock raids have taken place in recent years, and there is too heavy a price to pay when things go wrong.

The prevalence of this policing method, and the priority that we see from the state to maintain the drug war, only signals that the government ultimately has little interest in eventually moving to prioritize resources in any meaningful way to place violent crime and property crime as a top focus.

During discussions of legalization you'll hear law enforcement often say that "the law is the law" and therefore they must without question or thinking, enforce that law at any opportunity given.

But we know that this isn't the case, this isn't how they operate, they do have limited resources and the must use their resources to prioritize certain activities.

One Iraq war veteran was shot during a drug raid more than 60 times.

It's estimated that more than 40,000 SWAT raids take place every year, roughly 100+ homes being raided every day.

That is a lot of opportunity for mistakes to be made and those mistakes are often deadly for the public as well as those who are trying to police communities.

For some of those who have been victimized by these raids, it probably didn't feel a lot like they were being protected and served, nor that they were treated as innocent until proven guilty. It's a great deal of resources to be spent on people with controversial victimless habits. The state is a machine that denies and maintains its war on natural rights, attempting to protect people from themselves, but they end up causing injustice and widespread violence in the process. Drug raids aren't for the safety of the public because people aren't safe when there is a war being waged upon their natural rights and their liberty is being eroded as a payment for that "safety".

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