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fon... Editorial: Drug-free school zones? Try gimmick-free legislatures...ba href=/drug abuse/a/b. Drug-free school zones were created by Congress in 1988, and Wisconsin passed a companion law in 1989. The laws enhanced penalties for drug offenses committed within 1,000 feet of a school, public park, youth center, swimming pool, etc.The laws are silly. The very fact that drugs are illegal makes every square inch of American soil a “drug-free” zone. Drug crimes that occur within these zones rarely involve people under 18. In Massachusetts, for example, less than 1 percent of offenses in drug-free zones involve juveniles, but the law, in effect, considers a drug deal done in Milwaukee more heinous than one conducted in a Monroe County farm field.Why? Because densely populated urban areas place most people within 1,000 feet of a school, public park, youth center or swimming pool at any given time. Not only is most drug-dealing committed within drug-free zones, so is most of the robbery, vandalism, disorderly conduct, domestic abuse and drunk driving. Since dense population areas contain a disproportionate percentage of minorities, the main impact of drug-free school zones has been the unintended consequence of imposing harsher drug sentences on blacks and Hispanics than on whites. Even if the intent of the drug-free zones was to give prosecutors another sentencing weapon against the most egregious drug dealers, it’s still not worth the corrosive side effect of injecting racial disparities into the criminal justice system.Gimmicks like drug-free ... Backstory: Breaking barriers...
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