It's a good system, if it's run properly. Now you have to have a check on law enforcement, and that's why we can't have coerced confessions. You have lots of other constitutional protections. It's about the only way you can get at organized criminal behavior in this country today. But most drug busts aren't major.
Most busts lead to major ultimate results.
I know what Rudy Giuliani's done in New York is terribly impressive in reducing the rate of violent crime and heavy crime in his city, because he's gone after the lower level of crime. He's proven by what he's done that by community policing, and that means getting at misdemeanor crimes, getting at low level drug traffickers, he has gotten at the big guys more effectively than he would otherwise, because one leads directly to the other. The bottom line is that most of the efforts that go on into turning people into jail for any lengthy jail time, minimum mandatory sentences and so forth, deal with major traffickers, deal with people who are dealing with multiple offenses and violent crimes and long histories or some combination thereof. You bet they are. Most of those who are there are really the bad people that should be there.