No-knock drug raiders nullify the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution every day of the week. Politicians say more money will win the war. State and local governments also will spend huge sums. Posturing politicians, of course, but also the Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs Service, Coast Guard, FBI, and the rest of the drug warriors. Police love the drug war, because the forfeiture laws it inspired allow them to seize and keep private property with impunity.
Corrupt cops get fabulous bribes.
Many other sacred cows graze in the pasture of failed policies, and a similar story may be told about each of them. When we take a realistic view of the political process, we see that the so-called failed policies are nearly always spectacular successes. Otherwise, they wouldn't last. The Independent Institute. Permission is granted to reprint or broadcast this article if credit is given to the author and to the Independent Institute.