
“Copenhagen Police announced late last month that they would once again start cracking down on Pusher Street, largely in response to criticism that they had allowed the freetown’s drug trade to grow unchecked. But Mayor Jensen argued that the city ‘needs to go a new way’ and insisted it wouldn’t work. ‘The police have established a Pusher Street group and I’m not going to get involved in that, but I’m just saying that it won’t solve the problem because the cannabis sale will just move somewhere else,’ he said. ‘When Pusher Street was cleared in 2004, the sale of cannabis exploded in other places around the city.'”
http://www.cphpost.dk/news/local/mayor-and-police-odds-over-cannabis-approach
Related posts:
Experiment finds D.C. residents are the least honest Americans
Dem Rep. Steve Cohen: Tea Party Republicans Are 'Domestic Enemies'
Bulgarian Spring: Self-Immolations Highlight a Desperate Electorate
Germany ‘exporting’ elderly to foreign retirement homes
SpaceShipTwo edges closer to powered flight
Colonial flags fly in Hong Kong as anger grows over Chinese rule
Officer charged with raping woman while on duty and in uniform
Bank of Bird-in-Hand to open in fall
Saudi Prince says Bitcoin is ‘just going to implode one day’
NSA evidence may be key to Hammarskjold mystery death
Obama tells Russian LGBT activists he is proud of their work
Many 2011 federal budget cuts had little real-world effect
NYPD informant who tracked militants quits, denounces police
Marc Faber: Prepare for a Massive Market Meltdown
Bangladeshi student sentenced to 30 years in prison for FBI plot to blow up the Fed