behaviors towards drug use and drug users. They also suggest changes in police training and management aimed at addressing … reducing HIV transmission among injecting drug users (IDUs). Legal barriers include both law on the books and law on the … streets, i.e., the actual practices of law enforcement officers. Changes in syringe and drug control policy can be ineffective …

, drug use, police, and arrests in New York City. We use monthly data from 1970 through 1990 for New York City. We plot the … individual time series for five different non-drug crimes, arrest rates for these crimes, drug deaths, number of police officers … drug use and murders or assaults, holding constant arrest rates and police. In addition, we found evidence of police …

the imperatives of drug law enforcement now drive law enforcement and corrections policies in counterproductive ways. One … the lion's share of the drug-related assets they seize. This financial incentive has left many law enforcement agencies … dependent on drug law enforcement to meet their budgetary requirements. In this article we present a legal and empirical …

28% of all drug incidents in the country. São Paulo is also the state with the largest police force-about 100 … segundo ocorrências e massa [Drug Seizures in the State of São Paulo: An In-Depth View of Drug Seizures Broken Down by Number … of Incidents and Drug Amounts], conducted by Instituto Sou da Paz to encourage a discussion about Brazil’s drug policy …