It is in fact almost to me like so many jobs in the Police are reliant on the war on drugs, positions are probably engineered along with technology budgets etc, they are not the correct solution to change the war completely, then again can the change be quick like a complete reversal? There’s a moment in this book, after taking down a particularly nasty gang, a superior congratulations him on “Disrupting the drug flow into this city. He kind of portrayed himself as the victim of arbitrary shouting, and indirectly justifying his infidelity.

The trouble is that after this has happened a few times in a few cities, the big time dealers start to get very paranoid about their little street dealers introducing anyone new to them, because their experiences now tell them that the new person could easily be an undercover policeman. He points to Portugal where simple possession of drugs has been decriminalised (not possession with intent to supply, e.This is a really great book for those of us who do not have much knowledge about the life of an undercover police officer. He very much walked the walk, some of the things he experienced most people couldnt even imagine in theyre worst nightmares and he lived to tell the tale. The book is set into chapters of towns where he was thrown in as an undercover operative with the objective being to arrest the main drug dealer of the area. The best book ever written about the British drugs trade" proclaims journalist Johann Hari on the cover.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I don't agree with the model of addiction but this is a man who has been in the prison of his own mind and has the generosity to do something about an issue which harms more than it helps.But it’s equally evident that drugs are the most profitable aspect of criminal behaviour, that without prohibition the money gangsters could make would be much reduced. I can understand his points and reasons, but feel mis sold on the story and the purpose I bought this book. The no-hoper junkies were getting the same length of prison sentences as the vicious murdering dealers. But after years on the streets, spending time with the vulnerable users at the bottom of the chain, Neil began to question the seemingly futile war he was risking both his life and sanity for.