Good Cop, Bad War

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Neil Woods spent fourteen years (1993-2007) infiltrating drug gangs as an undercover policeman, befriending and gaining the trust of some of the most violent, unpredictable criminals in Britain. Portugal's rate of acute drug deaths per year is now three per million of population - the current UK rate, by contrast, is forty-six per million. Distribuimos y producimos contenido digital de información y entretenimiento y tenemos una gran selección de audiolibros, podcasts y series originales. Against the usual outcry from opposition groups and sections of the security apparatus, Portugal decriminalised drug use, and shifted drug policy from law enforcement to public health. I would say it is impossible to have a healthy relationship with anyone keeping that level of secrecy, I felt sorry for Sam and his children.

And this is coming from a guy who never did drugs (well, a little pot), but spent a lot of time living in the community. We would scratch the surface of a murder and almost invariably find a turf war between dealers, or a gang protecting their supply network. I’ve read numerous police biographies, not a few by undercover officers, and none show such sensitivity to the people they met. As an outpatient psychologist in the US, I fight the "war" in a different way and it was very informative to see the story from a detective's perspective.I saw Neil Woods on some YouTube channels and heard some of the stories there so wanted to read his book for the extra detail and background. The no-hoper junkies were getting the same length of prison sentences as the vicious murdering dealers. It will be tempting for those in favour of prohibition to paint Neil Woods as a limp-wristed, bleeding-heart liberal. Good Cop, Bad War is the memoir of an undercover detective who successfully infiltrated some of the nastiest criminal gangs in England during the 1990s and 2000s. And 2) not only war becomes harder and you can't easily take down the real criminals, but also most vulnerable people loose more, because idiots should "show something in statistics".

This action-packed book is a narrative-driven true crime read and a fascinating story of a character under pressure. This is the story of how a thoughtful, idealistic character learned to use his empathetic nature to master some of the roughest, most dangerous work in law enforcement.Since then he has left the police and now campaigns with LEAP UK to replace drug prohibition with a regulated market, which would take control (and money) from the criminal gangs and give it to the state, and allow drug policy to be an issue of health rather than crime. Finally, the decriminalization of drugs would immediately take a lot of power away from the big drug gang leaders. In addition to being a compelling and coherent argument in favour of decriminalisation, this book also provides numerous incredible stories from Neil Woods' years undercover. Neil spent fourteen years infiltrating drug gangs as an undercover police officer; he put his life on the line many a time, he was responsible for the capture, prosecution and conviction of numerous dangerous criminals. Having lived in the city myself, I couldn't believe that such visible drug use and abuse with substances as hard as it gets, heroin and crack, were so plentiful.

But no, it is real, and bloody hell, is it shocking, eyeopening, jaw dropping and written in a way that a crime/thriller would captivate its reader. People are people, and innate humanity is essential -- the police must be focused on their basic reality, your job is to help people, and protect them. A real life page turner from an ex undercover cop with each chapter getting more and more intense, culminating in some true powerful observations and insights from the author. From the early jobs where there were no established rules and you survived by your wits, Neil became one of the most successful operatives in a 14 year undercover career, locking up gang members for a total of a thousand years.Neil Woods, author of this book, is chairman of the organisation LEAP UK, this stands for 'Law Enforcement Against Prohibition', and consists of policemen and detectives who want to encourage the decriminalization of drugs. What's even more impressive about Good Cop, Bad War, is realising how much the author has put himself at risk by even writing and creating this book, besides the numerous years he spent undercover, somewhat dismantling his own well being not only to protect the general public, but to ensure now moving forward in his life, he can help and support the real victims of the war on drugs - those who are suffering from addiction with no support, homeless, ill, with little hope or direction on how to recover safely.

But throughout this book, Woods details how, as policing advances, so do Organised Crime Gangs; his work, and the work of undercover drugs agents, has only served to make criminal gangs smarter, harder and more professional. A painfully honest and touching memoir, this books is a must read for anyone even remotely concerned by the issues raised.I would highly recommend this book, as well as the numerous podcasts Neil speaks on regarding the war on drugs. Throughout his deployments in towns and cities across the UK he dealt with psychopaths and villains who preyed on addicts, torturing, maiming and killing those who crossed them. It takes a certain courage for a person to take an unflinching look at their life’s work, a cold, forensic, unwavering look.