Raeford Davis is former cop turned freedom advocate who now proudly works with L.E.A.P. to end prohibition and reduce the contention between the community and law enforcement. He joins the show today to share his experiences and epiphanies that has led to rejecting the dangerously false premises of the drug war.
Show Notes:
Our discussions with police officers, some of which who have left the force to pursue more peaceful occupations.
Motives of those joining government; some with the honest intention of helping the community, while others who are adrenaline junkies.
Working to change stagnant, poor policing practices and ‘bad apple’ officers.
What was your moment of epiphany?
The fatal unintended consequences of using law enforcement as a one-size-fits-all solution and to enforce opinions.
Firsthand accounts of using the law to victimize and draw revenue from the most vulnerable in the community.
People inherently understand the deadly threat of roadside execution via the use of force continuum.
Teen Boy Shot and Killed by Cop for Flashing Headlights and Flexing Rights.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” – Upton Sinclair
Realizing the harm and damage you’re responsible for while assuming good intentions.
“You can defer your discretion, but you cannot defer the moral consequences of your actions.”
Working within the system to help bring integrity to an otherwise soulless machine.
Have you ever looked the other way?
Sometimes they eat their own: Drunk Arizona Cop Turns Angry After Demanding Blue Courtesy in DUI Stop and Not Receiving It.
Using the term “citizen” to be able to effectively communicate with our statist friends.
Quoting Lysander Spooner‘s most lucid lines.
The moment of breaking-away from constitutionalism.
“Legal and illegal has nothing to do with right or wrong.”
Exposing the statist double-standard when talking with bureaucrats.
Countering critics who claim that the motion to dismiss didn’t have anything to do with the charges getting kicked from court.
Bureaucratic blame-shifting (a.k.a.: the state-dept two-step).
All police officers suffer from some amount of PTSD, whether they realize it or not, which often then leads to other serious problems if left untreated.
Unintentionally triggering anger from police officers just by simply questioning their dogma.
Uncovering the government hoax by realizing there are no states or citizens because there is “no duty to protect.”
Transferring departments or leaving the force after realizing the damage from standard patrol-work.
Understanding how and why cops/government agents become abusive.
Appealing to law enforcement by use of baby-stepping towards uncovering immoral policing practices, modeling Ron Paul’s approach.
Calling-out violations and inconsistencies of one’s own core principals with their actions.
How rampant is the black market in Amerka’s gulags?
The United States has a horrifically alarming incarceration rate.
It is extremely difficult, to the point of impossible, to legislate non-violent behavioral or recreational preferences.
Anarchists believe in many non-violent solutions and options to solve a social problem, unlike statists who only believe in one solution; violence.
Trying to have a rational conversation with someone who believes drug dealers ought to be executed right on the streets.
There are many premises of the drug war are inherently false, as evidenced by the devastating death toll from legal drugs versus the safer illegal drugs.
Government collusion and conspiracy of drug trafficking, while the smaller downstream dealers are left to be picked-off by the local police.
Effective internal investigators tend to be attacked or replaced when they start blowing the whistle on serious wrongdoing.
“A system that needs to be abolished cannot be reformed,[...]
