Baum, Dan. Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure. no city of publication: Back Bay Books, 1997.
Baum’s text claims that the government keeps more American’s in federal prison for drug crimes than those who were in for other crimes put together. The book explains how the prisons got where they are now demographically and statistically speaking based on the efforts of the drug war. In addition to being the author of this book Dan Baum is a writer for the New Yorker. This book consists of interviews of more than 175 people talking about who benefits from the drug war, how this became such a big issue, and how some people have been denied their rightful liberties because of the war, so the book can show a little bit of bias from some of these interviewees. For my digital forum I am going to use this source to help incorporate some statistics about how the War on Drugs impacts the incarceration rate due to the fact that more and more people entering prison are there on drug related offenses even if they seem minor.
King, Ryan S. Disparity By Geography The War on Drugs in America’s Cities. Project Report. Unspecified.
In the text King explains how the War on Drugs has changed the way that the United States carries out law enforcement. King then goes on about how this shift in law enforcement has caused a great increase in the number of those incarcerated due to drug offenses. In this text King seems fairly unbiased as he is just stating the facts and statistics of the incarcerations rates and talking about how the law enforcement has changed. I will use this source in my digital forum to explain how the law enforcement style changed once the war on drugs started, this way it will be an easy build up as to why the incarceration rate has increased.
Bush-Basketter Stephanie. The War on Drugs and the Incarceration of Mothers. Thousand Oaks: SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. 2000.
In this essay, Bush-Basketter has two main points, the effects the War on Drugs have on the incarceration of women and their children and the social costs involved with having these mothers in jail for drug offenses. Stephanie has wrote several articles on the topic of how incarcerated moms due to drug offenses impacts society socially so she is a very credible source, and this article contains no bias information. I will use this in my digital forum to indicate how in addition to the incarceration rates of the moms who go to jail, their children often times end up incarcerated due to the emotional impact it has had on them.
Lopez, German. Nixon official: Real Reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people and hippies. No city of publication, no publisher, 2016.
In this text Lopez talks about a recent report based around the claims made by John Ehrlichman against president Richard Nixon about how the true intentions of the war against drugs was never truly against drugs but rather against black people and hippies. This source could be bias because Ehrlichman gave this statement after he got out of prison due to the Watergate scandal so he could have had feelings of resentment towards Nixon, however much evidence found in incarceration rates of African Americans go hand in hand with this conspiracy. I will use this piece in my forum as another stakeholder position by stating that the war on drugs is neither failing nor succeeding because it was never supposed to be a war against drugs.
Newsweek Staff. I’m Proof: The War on Drugs is Working. No city of publication: Newsweek, 2001.
In this text the author is an anonymous person who was into drugs but then soon quit them after the fear of the war on drugs. This text informed readers that drugs are much harder to get a hold of than people think and that the fear of cops investigating drug crimes scare many drug users. This article could be a little bias as the author is talking about their own life experience. But that also makes it personal and helps the reader connect in the ways that the war on drugs is working. I will use this in my forum to back up the position that the war on drugs is in fact working in the United States.
No author. The United States War on Drugs. California: Stanford University, n.d.
This paper talks about how much money the government has spent on the War on Drugs in efforts to get rid of drugs, and it also talks about how all the money is doing no good. The amount of drugs do not seem to be decreasing despite how long the war on drugs has been going on. I see no bias in this article but it is uncertain because the author of the article is never stated. I am able to use this piece in my forum by using it as a position stating that the war on drugs is not working no matter the efforts that are being put into it.
Cordova, Gennette. The War on Drugs Has Not ‘Failed’. Washington: Huffington Post, 2016.
The message this article is trying to convey is that the War on Drugs initiated by President Nixon was all a conspiracy against African Americans to put them in jail. It mentions how despite the fact that arrests for marijuana have decreased, African Americans are still twice as likely to get arrested for drug related offenses. I used this in my third stakeholder position in order to help support the thesis that the real reason behind the War on Drugs was to target African Americans.
Branson, Richard. War on Drugs a trillion-dollar failure. No city of publication: CNN, 2012.
In the text provided Branson goes into detail about how America has the highest incarceration rate due to the War on Drugs yet it does not seem to be helping at all. He goes into detail on how much money the government is taking for the campaign on the war against drugs yet America’s incarceration rate is still high, so nothing all the money seems to be going to the cause for nothing. I will use this in my digital forum to help support the position stating that the war on drugs is not working, and I will use it by talking about how America is wasting all of this money yet the drug problem does not appear to be decreasing.
Baum’s text claims that the government keeps more American’s in federal prison for drug crimes than those who were in for other crimes put together. The book explains how the prisons got where they are now demographically and statistically speaking based on the efforts of the drug war. In addition to being the author of this book Dan Baum is a writer for the New Yorker. This book consists of interviews of more than 175 people talking about who benefits from the drug war, how this became such a big issue, and how some people have been denied their rightful liberties because of the war, so the book can show a little bit of bias from some of these interviewees. For my digital forum I am going to use this source to help incorporate some statistics about how the War on Drugs impacts the incarceration rate due to the fact that more and more people entering prison are there on drug related offenses even if they seem minor.
King, Ryan S. Disparity By Geography The War on Drugs in America’s Cities. Project Report. Unspecified.
In the text King explains how the War on Drugs has changed the way that the United States carries out law enforcement. King then goes on about how this shift in law enforcement has caused a great increase in the number of those incarcerated due to drug offenses. In this text King seems fairly unbiased as he is just stating the facts and statistics of the incarcerations rates and talking about how the law enforcement has changed. I will use this source in my digital forum to explain how the law enforcement style changed once the war on drugs started, this way it will be an easy build up as to why the incarceration rate has increased.
Bush-Basketter Stephanie. The War on Drugs and the Incarceration of Mothers. Thousand Oaks: SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. 2000.
In this essay, Bush-Basketter has two main points, the effects the War on Drugs have on the incarceration of women and their children and the social costs involved with having these mothers in jail for drug offenses. Stephanie has wrote several articles on the topic of how incarcerated moms due to drug offenses impacts society socially so she is a very credible source, and this article contains no bias information. I will use this in my digital forum to indicate how in addition to the incarceration rates of the moms who go to jail, their children often times end up incarcerated due to the emotional impact it has had on them.
Lopez, German. Nixon official: Real Reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people and hippies. No city of publication, no publisher, 2016.
In this text Lopez talks about a recent report based around the claims made by John Ehrlichman against president Richard Nixon about how the true intentions of the war against drugs was never truly against drugs but rather against black people and hippies. This source could be bias because Ehrlichman gave this statement after he got out of prison due to the Watergate scandal so he could have had feelings of resentment towards Nixon, however much evidence found in incarceration rates of African Americans go hand in hand with this conspiracy. I will use this piece in my forum as another stakeholder position by stating that the war on drugs is neither failing nor succeeding because it was never supposed to be a war against drugs.
Newsweek Staff. I’m Proof: The War on Drugs is Working. No city of publication: Newsweek, 2001.
In this text the author is an anonymous person who was into drugs but then soon quit them after the fear of the war on drugs. This text informed readers that drugs are much harder to get a hold of than people think and that the fear of cops investigating drug crimes scare many drug users. This article could be a little bias as the author is talking about their own life experience. But that also makes it personal and helps the reader connect in the ways that the war on drugs is working. I will use this in my forum to back up the position that the war on drugs is in fact working in the United States.
No author. The United States War on Drugs. California: Stanford University, n.d.
This paper talks about how much money the government has spent on the War on Drugs in efforts to get rid of drugs, and it also talks about how all the money is doing no good. The amount of drugs do not seem to be decreasing despite how long the war on drugs has been going on. I see no bias in this article but it is uncertain because the author of the article is never stated. I am able to use this piece in my forum by using it as a position stating that the war on drugs is not working no matter the efforts that are being put into it.
Cordova, Gennette. The War on Drugs Has Not ‘Failed’. Washington: Huffington Post, 2016.
The message this article is trying to convey is that the War on Drugs initiated by President Nixon was all a conspiracy against African Americans to put them in jail. It mentions how despite the fact that arrests for marijuana have decreased, African Americans are still twice as likely to get arrested for drug related offenses. I used this in my third stakeholder position in order to help support the thesis that the real reason behind the War on Drugs was to target African Americans.
Branson, Richard. War on Drugs a trillion-dollar failure. No city of publication: CNN, 2012.
In the text provided Branson goes into detail about how America has the highest incarceration rate due to the War on Drugs yet it does not seem to be helping at all. He goes into detail on how much money the government is taking for the campaign on the war against drugs yet America’s incarceration rate is still high, so nothing all the money seems to be going to the cause for nothing. I will use this in my digital forum to help support the position stating that the war on drugs is not working, and I will use it by talking about how America is wasting all of this money yet the drug problem does not appear to be decreasing.