Andrea Nobel at the
Washington Times offers a piece on the Attorney General’s plans to curb crime.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday
that he plans to target drug cartels and crack down on gun crimes to snuff out
what could be the start of a national crime wave, evidenced by a recent uptick
in homicides and other violence.
But left unsaid is whether
Mr. Sessions also will direct the Justice Department to disrupt the legal
marijuana industry — a move that critics say could undermine his goals and
enable the cartels.
Speaking Tuesday to the
National Association of Attorneys General, Mr. Sessions warned of the dangers
posed by cartels that are able to smuggle drugs such as marijuana and heroin
across the U.S.-Mexico border.
“The less money they extract
out of America, that is sent to their organizations, the less power and less danger
they present to their governments and their people and the fewer people are
addicted,” he said.
The attorney general has been
steadfast in his opposition to marijuana legalization, saying drug use and
crime go hand in hand.
“I do not believe that this
pop in crime, this increase in crime is necessarily an aberration, a one-time
blip. I’m afraid it represents the beginning of a trend, and I think what
really concerns me in the bottom of all that is also the increase in drugs in
America,” Mr. Sessions said. “They tend to follow one another. That’s what
happened in the ‘60s and ‘70s. And I think it could happen now.”
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