NSW courts are jailing just one in four street drug dealers

[Jabberwocky]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...estigation-shows/story-fnpn118l-1227169608429

Some interesting stats there .

 

[poledriver]

Anti-drug campaigner Tony Wood, whose daughter Anna, 15, died after taking an ecstasy tablet at a Sydney dance party in 1995, said these were the ruthless and evil predators who made money from selling drugs to our schoolchildren.

“We need judges with the guts and gumption to go after these people,” Mr Wood told The Daily Telegraph.

“The courts are really letting the community down. If the laws are not enforced and people are not made to comply with the laws, then how are we going to achieve anything?”

Mr Wood said if you stop drug dealing at street level, it has an impact right up the chain to the main suppliers.

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[S.J.B.]

I'm glad to see that Australian courts, like Canadian courts, are a lot more reasonable than their respective general populations.

 

[Crankinit]

^Tony Wood doesn't represent the general population. I feel bad for the man, he's obviously never found a way to cope with his daughter's death, but that doesn't make him any less wrong.

 

[S.J.B.]

^Tony Wood doesn't represent the general population. I feel bad for the man, he's obviously never found a way to cope with his daughter's death, but that doesn't make him any less wrong.

Are you claiming that the average citizen of Australia does not want to see drug dealers put in jail? I couldn't possibly make that claim here, and I am sceptical that there is any country in the world where this is the case.

 

['medicine cabinet']

Taking down street dealers is like pulling a weed off at the ground, just keeps coming back but with dealers its just some other person. Since there will always be dema d there will be ppl wanting to supply. You have to stop it at its source of entry, the us is a bad example BC our borders are like swiss cheese haha. But it usually never does any good taking down street dealers, so.done else will take their place and sometimes the new dealer is more hardcore than the previous guy and may pack heat and have no prob using it. Not all street dealers are bad ppl or anything..

 

[poledriver]

Five accused of Sydney’s two biggest drug ops get bail

FIVE people charged over two of Sydney’s largest drug operations — with amounts measured in tonnes and bearing a street-value in the billions — have received bail, leaving senior NSW and federal police shocked and furious.

One of the major drug schemes allegedly involved international drug cartels and the other a Sydney bikie gang.

In one case two men accused of taking part in the importation of $1.5 billion dollars worth of drugs into Sydney were granted bail in Central Local Court last week.

The two, Rene Arancinia, 23, from Kogarah and Joshua Hamlin, 34, from Slyvania have been charged with attempted possession of a commercial quantity of drugs.

The pair are allegedly part of a coalition of organised crime groups responsible for importing almost three tonnes of illegal drugs, including 1917kg of ecstasy (MDMA) and 849kg of crystal methamphetamine.

Magistrate Les Mabbutt granted the men bail on December 17 despite the case involving the second-biggest drug bust in Australian history. Both men had to hand up their passports as well as post bail with a security of $1.5 million as part of the conditions.

“(If convicted) These guys are facing life, are allegedly linked to some of the wealthiest drug cartels in the world and are granted bail. I know the surety seems quite high but we are talking about more than a billion dollars in drugs,” a senior NSW police source said.

The illegal substances were intercepted by the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service officers. The drugs were hidden in a mixed container-load of furniture and unmarked boxes.

Police will allege the consignment with an estimated weight of almost two tonnes of MDMA and more than 800kgs of methamphetamine was shipped to Australia from Germany and arrived into Australia on 19 November.

Police conducted a controlled delivery of the consignment to an address in Blacktown where its contents were removed and transported to another location. The men have been ordered to appear again on February 4.

Police were just as shocked in Parramatta local court the week before when three men with links to the Comanchero bikie gang were given bail after being charged in relation to the manufacture of $48 million worth of methamphetamines.

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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...170078932?nk=c4e8f3f007e5c14cc5ddd07d7020e88b

 

['medicine cabinet']

Daaaaamn. At first I thought that was a huge tray of dope or coke....that really is a shit ton of drugs.

 

[Crankinit]

Aaaaand the meth hysteria train continues...

Those people in the second article are hardly "street dealers." When I think street dealer, I think of someone who's given an 8 ball or two at a time, smokes half of it, sells the other half at a markup to break even. Most of them are just addicts being preyed on by low level distributors. They need treatment, not jail time.

Are you claiming that the average citizen of Australia does not want to see drug dealers put in jail? I couldn't possibly make that claim here, and I am sceptical that there is any country in the world where this is the case.

Unless someone has done a survey, there's no way to know.

 

[poledriver]

No they aren't street dealers, but it's NSW and I couldn't be fucked making it it's own thread.