Talk:Daryl Gates

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Why is there a completely different article at Darryl F. Gates?

Thanks for catching that. I've added "merge" tags so that the two articles can be combined (hopefully under the correct spelling). Cheers, -Willmcw 20:03, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

Actually, it is spelled DARYL, it even says on his book!

1 POV issues
2 DARE
3 Edits made by anonymous IPs
4 Casual drug users "ought to be taken out and shot."

[edit] POV issues

This article was obviously written by a Gates apologist (probably some Jack Dunphy-wannabe who lives in a KKK-infested housing tract in Simi Valley). I'm slapping a neutrality dispute tag on it. --Slightlyslack 10:42, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

OK, I've gone through and made a fair number of changes and radically improved the writing. Unlike the guy who wrote all of the Gates-worshipping crap before me, I actually listed some references. Imagine that. POV tag now gone.--Slightlyslack 09:26, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] DARE

Please provide evidence as to the ineffectiveness of the DARE program.

Confusion as to Marijuana as a gateway drug? The argument is that people buying cannabis often come into contact with other drugs by association with dealers, not that smoking the drug itself sets you up neurologically to look for a better high/fix and go looking intentionally for other narcotics, so surely at face value it IS a potential gateway drug, but on the same level, it could be argued that it should be legalised and thus removed from the criminal market and proximity with other narcotics?!

[edit] Edits made by anonymous IPs

Is "Jack Dunphy" making these or something? --Slightlyslack 10:34, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Whoever is deleting info, please give an explanation. -Willmcw 04:05, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Casual drug users "ought to be taken out and shot."

The above quotation and its reaction are worthy of inclusion. It was initially reported by the LA Times, I believe. He made a point of referring to marijuana users (or those who "blast" pot, according to him) and considered it to be worthy of "treason." --AWF