She decided to venture out into the drug war zones of Baltimore, not in uniform this time, but as a civilian. She looked at the kids in the city, and talked with them. She discovered “they are growing up in war zones. There’s no doubt about it.” There were prohibition-related killings almost every night, and “the kids see it. All the kids know this. It traumatizes you to a point you can’t begin to imagine.” But perhaps most important, once you have been busted for a drug offense—at fifteen or seventeen or twenty—you are virtually unemployable for the rest of your life. You will never work
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