When's the Victory Parade?

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With the Obama administration in the midst of trying to dinosaur the phrase "War on Drugs," we thought it would be worth looking at some of that 40-year-old conflict's greatest defeats. And we found a true gem buried within this recent Department of Justice bulletin (PDF), a compilation of felony-case statistics from 2004.

There are some great nuggets throughout the document, such as the revelation that auto-theft cases are the easiest for prosecutors to win, and the fact that 97 percent of conv

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Published on July 01, 2009 06:07
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