ADVISORY/The Nation's Police Officials Gather to Discuss 'Ethical Problems in Drug Enforcement' At Hoover Institution Conference October 5 and 6.

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ADVISORY...for Thursday (Oct. 5)

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STANFORD

WHO: Hoover distinguished fellow George P. Shultz, Nobel laureate and Hoover
senior research fellow Milton Friedman, Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy,
Lindesmith Drug Policy Foundation president Ethan Nadelmann, San Jose Police
Chief Bill Lansdowne, and San Diego Police Chief David Bejarano are among the
speakers. The keynote speech will be by senior federal Judge John Kane of
Denver who has called for decriminalization of drugs. ORGANIZER: Joseph D.
McNamara, retired police chief of San Jose and Hoover research fellow and
outspoken critic of the drug war. TOPICS: Racial profiling, disproportionate
drug arrest and incarceration rates for people of color, mandatory sentencing,
seizure of property by the government, police drug crimes and corruption in
L.A., N.Y. and throughout the country, the use of paid informants in drug
cases, illegal police searches and perjury, use of deadly force by the police
in drug raids, police deaths and injuries in drug enforcement, result of
enforcement on rates of drug use, impact of the drug war on foreign policy, the
failure to interdict ninety percent of the drugs entering the United States,
the lack of success in stemming foreign production of drugs. WHO: Prosecutors,
judges, medical doctors, community activists, defense attorneys, and police
officials from narcotics officers to chiefs can be expected to engage in heated
discussion of issues that are plaguing police agencies throughout the country.
WHY: This is the fourth Hoover Institution conference on drug control policies
for police officials since 1995. In the previous three conferences, the police
attending voted unanimously for more treatment and education instead of more
arrests and prisons. Despite these sentiments, drug arrests and the number of
Americans incarcerated for drug crimes have increased. WHEN: October 5 and 6.
Sessions begin at 1:15 p.m. and run until 5 p.m. October 5. On October 6,
sessions begin at 9 a.m. and run until 5 p.m. Judge Kane's talk on October 5 is
at 7 p.m.

OPEN TO: Working Press Only. Interviews welcome.

CALL and RSVP: For seating, agenda, information: Michele M.

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