The War on Drugs spurred the nation’s current policing crisis

SACRAMENTO – While growing up around Philadelphia in the 1970s, I had a number of interactions with police – none of which were particularly harrowing. On the night before Memorial Day, for instance, a friend and I were drinking beer (yes, we were underage) in a cemetery by the Delaware River when we saw lights flashing and were approached by officers.
Apparently, the police had gotten a tip that someone might be stealing the brass placards from the gravestones and we were in the wro