tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post1872101584019142731..comments2024-03-28T09:22:36.967+13:00Comments on Offsetting Behaviour: Police agitprop [updated]Eric Cramptonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15831696523324469713noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-47709229751344548072009-08-19T16:37:16.581+12:002009-08-19T16:37:16.581+12:00The public equation of harms, in order to justify ...The public equation of harms, in order to justify its existence is malfeasance. National Drug Intelligence (for whom incompetance is no excuse) has never accounted for cost/benefit delivery of services. The drug interdiction budget is an unaccounted deficit funded bottomless pit. If the same rules were to apply to 'road safety' every speeding ticket would be worth thousands.Blair Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16754114039437234920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-31960010376444465812009-08-19T08:13:27.026+12:002009-08-19T08:13:27.026+12:00Gah, this always pisses me off... what a total was...Gah, this always pisses me off... what a total waste of public resources. Reminds me of headlines from the US - where, when you break down the numbers, the so called "street value" the police provide comes out to outright absurd figures per plant.Jadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10517163803946638247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-51879900047620819472009-08-18T23:08:30.632+12:002009-08-18T23:08:30.632+12:00@hefevice: their doing so would only increase the ...@hefevice: their doing so would only increase the measured social costs of drugs. I was totally with Nandor in his opposition to some of the asset forfeiture provisions; in the US, these provisions help fund police buying the military vehicles...<br /><br />@Philip: awesome.Eric Cramptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15831696523324469713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-56927428107890290702009-08-18T21:25:51.163+12:002009-08-18T21:25:51.163+12:00Eric: you'll have to be more accurate in your ...Eric: you'll have to be more accurate in your postings. I think you'll find that it was not $379 million in social harms, but actually $379,024,920.<br /><br />You see, this figure is so precise at capturing the exact social harms that it can be calculated to the nearest $10.<br /><br />http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/2762951/Police-seize-141-000-cannabis-plantsPhiliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11168147692934945408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-43155024266483120842009-08-18T19:56:23.925+12:002009-08-18T19:56:23.925+12:00God, I hope the cops aren't going to commandee...God, I hope the cops aren't going to commandeer the new NH-90 Helos with their much higher operating costs for these pointless operations. Please leave the expensive, high-tech military vechicles for, you know...the military.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com