Advocates on Biden Extending Trump's ‘War on Drugs’ Policy

 

These drug policy advocates are speaking out as the Biden administration looks to extend a ‘war on drugs’ policy first introduced during the Trump administration.

Street children in the Philippines | DW Documentary

 

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is waging a brutal war on drugs. Thousands of people have already died at the hands of the police, including children.

The Mortician of Manila: Inside the Philippines’ ‘war on drugs’

 

A funeral parlour in Manila becomes a window into the lives and deaths shaping President Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’.

His relationships with clients reveal both the empathy and contempt he holds for the country’s “drug war” victims who have lost their loved ones in police killings and are now, like him, struggling to survive.

When Angelita, who lost her son in a suspected drug-related police killing, arrives at Eusebio 24hr Funeral Services, she realises she cannot afford her son’s funeral.

Why America's police look like soldiers

Across the country, Americans protesting racial injustice and police brutality – the overwhelming majority of them peacefully – have been met by police forces that look more like an army. Officers have shown up to protests with riot gear, armored trucks, and military rifles. This is what America’s police now look like, and it’s the result of a decades-long buildup of military equipment among the country’s police departments. It began as a Reagan-era program to give police departments more resources to fight the War on Drugs, and has escalated ever since. Today, the idea of a militarized police force is baked into how American police see themselves.