The so-called "drug war""

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Since Nixon proposed the so-called "drug war" concept in 1971, the seven American presidents have spent nearly one trillion dollars in the battle against drugs. The anti-drug campaign in the United States has lasted for nearly half a century. This is also in American history. The longest war. The movie "The Land of Drug Trafficking" used the mouth of a drug dealer on the US-Mexico border and loose borders to say, "The United States is the place where drugs are sold the most, and the entire United States sells them." As long as God allows, this kind of thing seems to never happen. There will be an end. War has spawned violent groups, and there will be markets where there are needs and interests, and the corresponding authority is the authority. The motto of the Los Angeles Police Department is: "To Protect and to Serve" (to protect and serve the public). Since its establishment, it has frequently appeared in movies and TV series, but it is because of its racial hatred and police officer corruption. From 1950 to 1980, the Los Angeles Police Department was made up almost entirely of white people. This situation did not change until the 1980s. Alonzo said to Jack: "I used to be merciless to bad guys." He was like this rookie, full of enthusiasm, and wanted to save the world. It's different now. If you want to get justice, you can fight violence. If you want to protect the lamb, you have to catch a wild wolf. Only a wild wolf can catch a wild wolf. A good person must die first. How much does it cost a black police officer to sit as a detective? Just don't be a good person. Alonzo killed the drug lord who had been his brother for more than ten years. This was the first climax of the film. He and Jack sat back in the car and explained all this. "I just use him. This is my duty, and this is your duty. Roger sells drugs to children. The world would be safer without him. He is the largest drug lord in Los Angeles. I have been staring at him for ten years now. I caught him. What do you think of fighting wits and courage in this business? We will roll between black and white. He is a big drug lord. Sorry for showing you the ugly side, but it is necessary. You Just like me before, as long as you accept the cruel world of reality, you will feel better in your heart. You must make some mistakes in the anti-drug business so that others will believe you. When you figure it out, the better world will be waiting for you. I am Your guide, I can open every door for you. My men are not leaders. They are clowns. You are the leader. You can replace me. If you want to catch the bad guys, this is the best opportunity. . But you have to be patient, first become a detective, learn to be smart, and then make changes, but you have to change yourself first." If you don’t have the one million "tax" from the four million stolen money, this is also true. It can be regarded as an old bird's painstaking teaching to a rookie. But this million was used to redeem his life from the Russian gang. Alonzo planned for a whole week. He couldn't make fun of himself for a stubborn card. He sold Jack. Director Antonio Fuqua put a corrupt Alonzo naked in front of the audience. As long as you follow the plot, you hardly need to think about anything. You will despise this lie, cunning, greedy, and brutal policeman from the bottom of your heart, but after that Woolen cloth? I never thought that Alonzo was a complete badass, I just felt it was a pity. At least some of the things he said to Jack and some of the things he did with Jack were not just for the sake of buying Jack. He allowed small poisonous insects to sell marijuana to support the family and help his mother stay in the United States; the unclaimed stolen goods were given to informants or victims to help their families; the informants went to jail, and he helped them support their families; he was in As a "landlord" in the drug dealers' base camp, "Alonzo is a corrupt and corrupt policeman, but I admire him very much. He is ruthless. He has no respect for anything. Alonzo is too hot." He will not catch him as long as they are not too much. People...In order to make things easier, he has to give all the money he found from Sandman to his superiors, police detectives, supervisors, and commanders, one after another, in exchange for a search warrant. The government is vigorously cracking down on it. The police acted corruptly, "The chiefs want you to pay a fee, but they want you to pay some taxes. They want to provide yachts, mistresses, and mansions." There is no free lunch in the world. As an anti-drug policeman, the bosses despise him and the drug dealers are afraid of him. The best Alonzo can do is to try to balance the relationship between the police station and the drug dealers. If it were not for the life-saving million, he might never have been. With Roger, drug dealers will never be able to catch them, because the government will never ban people's desires. Jack's image is actually quite boring, typical heroism, honesty, ideals, hard and hard, and insist on self. It is right to put any good words on him, and it is precisely because of this that it will inevitably make people feel a little aesthetic fatigue. The really interesting part is at the end. Alonzo died and became a hero who died on duty in the media and the police. The one million dollars that Jack desperately regained became the final foreshadowing. If everything really develops as the audience imagined, what is the meaning of this open ending? It may take Alonzo more than ten years to become a real "rules-knowing" policeman, and Jack had to face the bloody truth in the next few decades after experiencing this thrilling training day. After a preview to him, Alonzo had asked Jack a long time ago, "Why do you want to be an anti-drug police?" "Because you want to eradicate drug lords and serve the people", when asked again, "Because you want to be a police detective," everyone is the same. of. It is not just Alonzo alone who is involved in this million, but also his team, the high-level staff who facilitated their actions. When the police declared Alonzo to be a hero, there was no truth in Jack's hands. The things he knew were enough for the media to wipe out the entire Los Angeles Police Department. He once refused Alonzo’s bid. At that time, he chose to stand on the side of justice. Alonzo spent a whole day trying to teach him that justice is the most useless thing. Leave this million and he will become the next Alonzo. s inception. The United States once launched a vigorous anti-alcohol movement in the 1920s, but the result failed to achieve the effect of purifying moral sentiment as expected. Prohibition drove greater greed, but it could not solve any problems. The war on drugs is no different. The real purpose of Nixon's so-called "War on Drugs" was to imprison black people. Imagine a small country where 5% of the world’s population lives but 25% of the world’s prisoners. This is only an attempt to fill the abolition of black slavery. Afterwards, there was a shortage of labor; Reagan carried out this "superficial" war to the end. The war on drugs became a war on skin color. No white man could understand the difficulties of being a black man in the United States. The real enemy may never have been users or traffickers, but our government. In the Afghanistan War, the US military allowed refugees to grow opium to feed the guerrillas; under the anti-American wave in South American countries, the CIA came forward to participate in the drug business and supported the rebel business by drug trafficking; the fire that the United States personally ignited finally burned itself, most of the time. The drugs flowed into the mainland. Alonzo is just a screw under the operation of power, a "hero" being shaped. He was defeated by his own greed, but sooner or later he would be imprisoned by the intricate network woven between the upper-level agencies and the drug trade. This is a dead end that he, or thousands of Alonzos, can't get out of. Jack is a "hero" created by the audience. He cannot be based in reality. Alonzo has taught him. The best ending is to be the facade of the team, a just and glamorous puppet. Otherwise, just roll back. Be a patrolman for a lifetime. So who is the "hero" who can really stand out? nobody. The current president of the United States once said with great ambition that he would execute all drug dealers, but we all know that the government’s tricks, inaction and powerlessness, are full of the "golden jade and other failures" underlying system. Some things will never change. If you forgive it, it will not tolerate you. This is just a political game. It is about race, money, and war, but it is not about justice. Martin Luther King said that “the delay of justice is the rejection of justice.” Then, the drug war in the United States It has failed. "Everyday is a training day", it teaches you how to be a wolf and how to get lost forever and deliberately.

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Training Day quotes

  • Jake: [Telling Alonzo a story in a coffee shop] It was a quiet night we were rolling on Van Nuys I'm driving this Acura comes out a side street all over the median in excess I light it up hit the whaler guy drives on like I'm invisible for ten blocks before he pulls over plates were unclean so I'm watching from our unit and she's tossing the Acura she calls me over to the vehicle a snub 38 two shotguns fully loaded so she calls our supervisor and I keep searching and I find five hundred grams of meth turns out this DUI is on bail for distribution and is on his way to smoke his ex-partner before trial so we prevented a murder.

  • Jake: [Driving away from Sandman's house after the shooting] God damn it that was not cool opening fire in the middle of a neighborhood where was the Sandman? What the hell were you doing back there?

    Alonzo Harris: I was checking for narcotic activity drugs, guns, and baggies

    Jake: Cash

    Alonzo Harris: Speak on it

    Jake: She's screaming about money

    Alonzo Harris: She's just talking shit, she's talking about us getting killed

    Jake: I'm going to be on the six o'clock news in an orange suit in hand cuffs because of you with the scandals and what not it is open season on misconduct they will nail us to the wall

    Alonzo Harris: Listen, you're in a privileged position to learn a thing or two keep your mouth shut and your eyes open you say you're serious about doing some real police this is the place to learn but if this kind of shit shakes you up maybe you should go back to your division you have to decide if you're a wolf or a sheep

    [Alonzo shows Jake his tattoo, after pulling over on the side of the highway]

    Alonzo Harris: Get your ink