What's our solution?

The British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV / AIDS just released an important scientific review. They looked at all known English language scientific literature focused on the link between drug law enforcement and violence. They identified fifteen studies completed over the last twenty years, of which thirteen suggested that more drug enforcement results in increased levels of violence. Here are links to the one page summary and the full report.

Here's the response from RCMP Staff Sergeant Dave Goddard, as quoted by The Province:

B.C. had 140 homicides in 2008, more than in any other year, and the RCMP deemed 30 per cent of those deaths were "gang-related".

But the UBC report is dismissed by RCMP Staff Sgt. Dave Goddard, who posed last week in front of 1,001 kilograms of cocaine seized from a sailboat, leading to charges against a Canadian and a Mexican.

"These intellectuals who come up with these ideas are great at pointing out the problem, but what's their solution?" demands Goddard.