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11 Feb 4:30 am
Source: Crime and Justice News, February 11, 2009. "Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske is set to be
federal 'drug czar' in the Obama administration, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. 'I think he knows the right things to do for communities, cops, prosecutors and the defense bar.
I think he is well qualified for this,' said a source. Kerlikowske, 59, came to Seattle in 2000 after serving as deputy director of the U.S.
Justice Department's Community Oriented Policing Services grant ...
11 Mar 10:18 am
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 11, 2009. "Seattle Police Chief R. Gil Kerlikowske, president
of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, officially will be nominated as the nation's drug czar today. The Washington Post says ... was instrumental in the creation of the Office of
National Drug Control Policy and would continue to be an outspoken advocate of it." "Kerlikowske has long been reported as the front- runner to
serve as the drug czar. Revelations concerning the arrests of his son, Jeffrey ...
13 Mar 6:22 am
... years ago, so it was fitting that on Wednesday he announced the Obama administration's choice for drug czar: Seattle Police Chief Gil
Kerlikowske. The announcement thrilled neither progressive anti- prohibition groups, which dislike the idea of a career cop in charge of drug
... drug war has not worked. Meanwhile, the Office of National Drug Control Policy soldiers on, as expensive and ineffective as ever. If Kerlikowske's record is any indication, he is just the man to clean up this mess." Slate.com
12 Feb 7:00 am
Drug Reform groups and others are beginning to react to the reports that President Obama will choose Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske as the new Drug Czar: Paul Armentano at NORML The day the U.S. government finally - and properly - ... Room Marijuana laws are not the only drug
laws that need to be reformed. I have not seen anything to suggest Kerlikowske will take a different approach than his predecessors on the
draconian sentences facing other drug offenders or mandatory minimums. Stay tuned ...
20 Mar 9:39 am
... nothing to curb illegal drug use. Kreit urges the Obama administration and Gil Kerlikowske
(right), the former Seattle police chief, who has been nominated to head ... Congress prepares to consider President Obama's nomination of Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske to head the ONDCP, now is the ideal time to come to grips with the fact that adopting ... and the
public that our war on drugs had been a failure. Obama nominated Kerlikowske on March 16; the Senate Judiciary Committee has not yet set a date
...
11 Feb 9:21 am
... priority initiative, the city's already-low rate of marijuana prosecutions fell even further, suggesting that Kerlikowske was responsive to
the will of voters. In that sense, he offers a dramatic departure from ONDCP's shameful history of undermining state medical ... bring expertise in community policing and public
relations. The piece ends with: ....As drug czar, I have no doubt that Gil Kerlikowske would oppose
drug legalization and serve as our primary opponent on many issues. Nevertheless, at ...
14 May 6:37 pm
... drug use. In his first interview since being confirmed to head the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske said Wednesday the bellicose analogy was a barrier to dealing with the nation's drug issues. There's some cause for ... a matter of public health
rather than criminal justice alone, with treatment's role growing relative to incarceration, Mr. Kerlikowske said. ....The drug czar doesn't
have the power to enforce any of these changes himself, but Mr. Kerlikowske plans ...
24 Jun 6:05 pm
Update: At the press conference today, Tom Angell of LEAP asked Gil Kerlikowske if in light of the
report and others calling for consideration of legalization, whether discussion about it might not be a good thing. His answer: " ... released its 2009 World Drug Report report and
reversed course. The report endorses drug decriminalization. [More...] U.S. Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske
(Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy) released this statement (pdf) in response. As NORML notes, the one ...
12 Feb 2:54 am
... those looking to read tea leaves regarding the Obama Administration's likely approach to drug policy, meet his just-appointed drug czar, Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske. According to the Seattle Political Intelligencer: Many local people expected that Kerlikowske ... , the city's already-low rate of marijuana prosecutions fell even further, suggesting that Kerlikowske was responsive to the will of voters. Jeralyn at Talk Left wonders whether this is change we can believe in: ...
12 Feb 10:29 am
As detailed in this Seattle Times article, "Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske has accepted a job
as the nation's drug czar in the Obama administration, according to a source in Washington, D.C., who is familiar with the administration's plans." This Seattle Post Intelligencer
article, which is headlined "Kerlikowske seen as a progressive," suggests advocates for drug policy reform are relatively pleased with the
decision: Many people, including those traditionally at odds ...
15 May 6:32 am
This article from the Wall Street Journal, headlined "White House Czar Calls for End to 'War on Drugs': Kerlikowske Says Analogy Is
Counterproductive; Shift Aligns With Administration Preference for Treatment Over Incarceration," provides some encouraging news ... . In his first interview since being confirmed to
head the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske said Wednesday the
bellicose analogy was a barrier to dealing with the nation's drug issues. "Regardless of how ...
13 May 9:38 pm
... In his first interview since being confirmed to head the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske said Wednesday the bellicose analogy was a barrier to dealing with the nation's drug issues. "Regardless of ... , the nation's largest
law-enforcement labor organization, said that while he holds Mr. Kerlikowske in high regard, police officers are wary. "While I don't
necessarily disagree with Gil's focus on treatment and demand reduction, I don't want to see it at the expense ...
19 Apr 5:31 am
... that drug courts, but not any moves toward legalization, appears to be focus on the new Administration: The man Obama picked to be the new "drug czar," Gil Kerlikowske, has made it clear that the United States is going to do a better job of treating addicts to try to
reduce the demand for narcotics. Kerlikowske, 59, is a military veteran with 36 years of law enforcement experience. The drug czar oversees an
agency that sets the country's drug-control ...
10 Apr, 2007 2:37 am
... by two Seattle Police officers who had been accused of lying in written reports has turned up no evidence of wrongdoing, Chief Gil
Kerlikowske said Monday. The officers' one error was failing to report that they had briefly detained and handcuffed another suspect; Chief
Kerlikowske says that they might be reprimanded or have some other administrative punishment for that. The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and ...
18 Jan, 2008 5:41 am
... city's crime rate, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Mayor Greg Nickels and Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske said Seattle's streets remain some of the nation's safest, despite a New Year that began with one woman killed, another savagely attacked, and two
teenage boys ... involving firearms, which had increased the past few years, plummeted 18 percent. Nickels and Kerlikowske attributed the
sinking crime rate to a strong economy, the police department's above-average rate of ...
17 Mar 5:59 pm
... Social Justice at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. On March 11, 2009, President Barack Obama announced that he will nominate Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske to be the next director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, also known as the "Drug
Czar." Chief Kerlikowske's nomination comes as we approach the 40th anniversary of the "war on drugs," which followed the passage of the
Controlled Substances Act in 1970. Professor ...
19 May 1:41 pm
Say goodbye to the War on Drugs. Gil Kerlikowske, the Obama Administration's new Drug Czar, told the
Wall Street Journal in his first interview last week that the moniker, and the crime-and-punishment mentality behind it, is being dropped. The kinder, gentler approach will help break
down the barrier the surrounds the criminal drug culture, Kerlikowske says. "Regardless of how you try to explain to people it's a 'war on
drugs' or a 'war on a product,' people see a war as a ...
20 Aug 12:04 pm
... drunk driving has decreased by seventy percent over the last thirty years in the U.S., national drug czar Gil Kerlikowske warned Las Vegas law enforcement on Wednesday that drugged driving in Las Vegas is on the rise. The drugs include prescription and over ... of
prescription drugs, was the first person to be found guilty under Nevada's felony DUI manslaughter law. Kerlikowske applauded local law
enforcement for their efforts to improve officer training in detecting drugged driving in Las Vegas and ...
4 Jan, 2007 7:49 pm
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels -- joined at a news conference by police chief Gil Kerlikowske and Special
Agent Kelvin Crenshaw (the head of the local ATF office) -- is urging the legislature to enact tougher gun control laws this session. Renewed call for tougher gun laws, Seattle PI, Jan.
4, 2007.
6 Mar, 2007 4:38 am
... restrictive gun laws than the U.S. 'If you purchase a gun here in Washington for $100, you could sell that for $300 in Canada -- that's U.S. not Canadian (dollars),' said agent Doug
Krough." "Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske said his department has tracked every crime gun for the past
five years. About 950 guns were confiscated by Seattle police last year. Recent changes in federal law prevent ATF from publicly sharing specific data about crime ...
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