Almost Getting Away With Murder, Costa Rica and Drug War Escalation
My weekly commentaries are up at Center for a Stateless Society.
In Costa Rica and Drug War Escalation, I take a look at gunboat law enforcement in Central America.
The Costa Rican government recently agreed to allow up to 46 United States warships and 7,000 Marines into Costa Rican waters. The official reason for this massive projection of power is to combat drug trafficking.
Calling United States drug policy “The War on Drugs” was never an exaggeration.
In Almost Getting Away With Murder, I discuss the Johannes Mehserle verdict.
Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle was given a slap on the wrist for his January 1, 2009 murder of Oscar Grant. A jury found Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and not guilty of the second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter charges he faced. It is sad that the lightest possible felony conviction for shooting a man pulled face down onto concrete while another officer held him down can be thought of as “at least something.”
