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election -- would a lot of bigger candidates be better off if they just ate a sundae. next weekend. all the time. >> what does it take to police america? >> we hear banging and scream on the door. >> now some americans are mad and pushing back against authority.ing >> what have did i not answer? what are you placing me under arrest for. >> what you do on your cell phone is none ofe theiris damn business. o >> i can'tf understandi what ran paur l is yelling at. >> everyone can spy on everyone. that was cool until hefe started taking pictures of my wife there. >> it's a weed wacker. the private spies. the police.
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>> big brother looking at us. >> policing america,wh where his theer line between security and liberty? (?) stossel: i want the police to be better armed than the bad guys, but today, what does that mean? more than 100 square blocks were decimated by fire and looters. >> after the los angeles race riots some cities created heavily armed teams called swat. for years swat teams were only called out in emergencies like a riot or bank robberies. but their use hasho increased from less than one raid a day to today maybe 100 raids every day. including cases where i have to wonder, why call out the swat team. >> anybody that would be afraid of me if i was
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trying to menace you in some way. >> joe is a stand up comic. the 5-foot 3-inch joe caught the attention of a swat team in new york. >> i had a really mind-numbingly customer service at apple store. so i went home and bitched about it on facebook. i quoted fight clyburn. >> might walk into an apple store with a semiautomatic weapon pumping round after round into one of those smug fruity connoisseurs. >> it was obviously fromrg fight club. it i thought it was a goods time. until 90 minutes later, a swat team knocked on my door. yeah. stossel: he opened the door. >> whole planet changed everyone has their guns charged.
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>> i dozen armed men. was that necessary. >> if they googled me. they would say i teach a yoga class in an hour. stossel: his local paper suggested joe had been stupid. >> who do not vent on't the internet. i've never thought i could quote a movie like fight club and it would bring a swat team to my house. who knows what could have transpired if i didn't answer the door with a sense of humor. stossel: other swat teams like talking about what they do. i havein and planned approximately 200 raids. >> charles leads a swat team in new york city. we aren't soldiers. we're not fighting in a enemy. we're trying to help people. >> police department. search warrant. h his team usually knocks first and then depending on circumstances waits ten seconds or maybe two
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minutes. >> police department search warrant. stossel: before breaking down the door. >> we're not liable for damage we do to people's property. patch up the door as best we can. u stossel: the expense of barging into homes makes good tv. there are several swat team reality shows. >> died in the line of duty. >> kids would see us in the neighborhood and run away from us. after that show, kids come up to us. >> while he doesn't like waking people up in the middle of the night, others do. >> we want to win without having a fight. stossel: steve, a 25 veteran of the dallas police department. if i have a gun at home and someone is banging at my home screaming i'm more likely to pick up the gun and shoot. >> when you knock unannounced what you're announcing is police. >> just because the guy says police doesn't mean he's police.
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just hear bang bang. scary. >> it's supposed to scary. and we use that to gain a tactical advantage. >> before they can think. >> that's exactly right. stossel: itnk doesn't get used o often today. g >> i've been involved in >> i've been involved in operations. >> we become so comfortable with this idea of using swat for everything as a first resort instead of the last. >> the police are turning into warrior cops and that swat teams are greatly overused says one writer and in fact today police use swat teams to raid truck stocks, barbershops and an organic farm, a fair and accurate h house where there's said to be underage drinking. an iowa man raided a house where they were accused of credit card fraud. >> using this kind of violence on people that are suspected of crimes that aren't violent is a
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disproportionate use of force. >> arizona policee. thought someone in this house were part of a drug raid. inside was josé a,an ex-marine who had completed two tours in iraq. he had just gone to bed after his 12 hour shift. >> the battering ram. his son and wife is in the house. he grabs his military weapon. one officer tripped and fired his gun. they opened fire. seventy-one shots. they killed josé a. >> his gun was still on safety inside the house the officers found no drugs or illegal weapons. >> i cannot fault an officer for using a gun raised at them. >> steve now teaches tactics. he suggests try a ruse instead of a raid. >> we would dress up in
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ups uniforms. package at the door. come sign. >> police search warrant. >> when you burst into people's homes. nasty things do happen. this swat team believes there's a large supply of marijuana. >> did you hit my dog? he killed my dog. you killed my dog. >> the police posted this video on the web and it went viral. >> they rush in the house, shoot the dog, terrify the kid. >> the video speaks for itself. they're not pullinrrg hair. they're notpe swearing. they're not knocking people on their faces. they're walking through the house. police with a searcheo warrant. police with a search warrant. >> the pit bull is attempting to bite athe pit police officer. i think they have legal authority to stop the dog from biting them. they shot the pit bull
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because the pit bull was a threat. they did nothing wrong in that case. stossel: even though they didn't find that large supply of marijuana, just a tiny amount. >> when you're using swat teams to serve warrants, you're creating violence and confrontation where there was none before. stossel: police work is dangerous. they don't know what they'll face at the other side of the door.re they're just protecting themselves. >> if you're breaking into someone's house inea the middle of the night, their first ticket is that another drug dealer is trying to rob them. stossel: swat team get protective equipment from the pentagon. >> it involved really odd stuff. helicopters, airplanes. big-ticket items, but in many circles couldn'ta use. >> it's m6 days. and grenade launchers. stossel: some armored equipment is necessary.
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his team once had to borrow a garbage truck to try to rescue people that were wounded. >> we needed an armored car that day. >> now, the pentagon gives away m raps. >> they use it because it's free. stossel: in your town they got an mrap it happen." they needce that? >> any arm or you can procure, especially free, it's a good thing. stossel: local police get cash grants from the department of homeland security which they use to buy armored trucks. >> the bearcat -- 270 grand and the mraps drive it off the lot.nt h >> all these equipment has a purpose (?) stossel: the purpose is to protect the officer and make it clear to the bad guy that he faces overwhelming force.
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fighting back would be futile. >> we just served a no>> knock search warrant in houses where we know people are armored. robbery rape, et cetera. we won't knock on the door. when we hit the door, one of the main subjects stood up with a glock. >> they said to a grenade to distract him. >> he he fell over to the floor dropping the gun. >> we aren't going after little johnny selling a little sack of weed. >> they rated the home of bob and andy hart. >> when my son and six grade he built a hydroponic. >> he wrote down his -- left with a small bag of merchandise. >> the county sheriff sent a raid team for a full-blown drug raid.
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>> we hear banging on the door. reach out open the door. immediately i'm on the ground face down handspe behind my head. i'm staring at this guy's boots. everyone is yelling, are there children in the house? >> the police knew nothing about bob's work history. >> we have background checks for my job. >> they kept us under their arms for two and a half hours. f >> we didn't find out why they came to our house until a year later. stossel: all they were told there are narcotics in in this home and we're going to find them. they gave them a receipt no items taken. why the swat team?ms >> one of the guys told us that marijuana seeds and stems had been pulled out of our trash. >> neither bob and i used pot. the trash people are involved. the neighbor's kids must be walking through and throwing stuff in our trash.
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stossel: it turns out what the police found in their trash was not marijuana it's take away. >> i drink take away and brew it in big batches when i'm done with it, they did a field test on them. >> they had a positive reading for marijuana and that was enough to then raid our home. >> it wasn't until aenfter the home that police sent the tak tea leaves to a lab. >> swat raids are sometimes needing, but 100 raids every day? also did you know there are now border patrolr checkpoints inside america. >> i don't need reasonable suspicion. that's the law,oi sir. >> no, it's not. that's next.
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stossel: if i drive across a us border, i know i have to stop at a patrol checkpoint. imagine driving to a grocery store. well, inside america and being stopped by the border patrol. >> what crime am i being charged with. >> pastor steven anderson was stopped at a border patrol checkpoint 60 miles from the border. >> what are you placing
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me under arrest for. >> their police dog alerted them to something in their car. glenn: the dog never alerted to anything, he said. he wouldn' t let them search their cars so officers break both windows and then taze him from two directions. >> here's what he looked like later. on youtube you can see lots of confrontations like that because lots of americans are upsetca about being upset about being stopped not on the border, but miles away from the border. our government did rule that border patrol may set up checkpoints within a reasonablehe distance of the border. what's reasonable? >> they said that distance is 100 air miles from any external m boundary of the united states. stossel: 100 miles. that's where most americans live. >> two-thirds of the people live in these spots. all of florida. more than half of california. all of mane., all of new hampshire.
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>> all residents are suspects simply by virtue of living in southern arizona. stossel: america does need to police our border. >> rick understands that. an air force pilot who served in iraq and afghanistan. now, he's based in texas where he found he had tohe pass fou through checkpoints all the time. >> there's no way tore leave's the border town without going to a checkpoint. >> the checkpoint he had to pass through mosthe often is 67 miles from the border. >> i started to feelth like i was asking to leave that town. i'm just traveling in the united states. i haven't crossed any borders. i didn't like that feeling. >> so he installed cameras in his car.ed glenn: because i wanted to prove the truth of defense. >> they won't answer any questions. here's on the phone with a lawyer.as >> they're now standinge around without telling me anything. >> the supreme court said that border patrolou agents at immigration checkpoints can conduct brief stops for the limited purpose of verifying residence status.
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they could not involve the searches of citizens and their vehicles. >> the person says yes, ma'am and they should be let go. >> according to the supreme court, yes. >> it maybe silly, but you can't set up a checkpoint for all manner of wrongdoing. >> that's exactly what many do. >> what's the reason you want to check my trunk? >> your car is dirty. >> here a border patrol agent inspects one of our cars. >> it was a peaceful little town. it was calming. there wasn't no problems. stossel: big government creates problem as the number of interior checkpoints has grown, more americans say this is destroying our town. >> there's less and less tourists coming here. >> this woman had to close her business. >> it's sad. economically this town depends on tourists and we're not on the -- we're in america.
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stossel: people say it's like stossel: people say it's like apache helicopters overhead. surveillance towers.ei dozens of border patrol trucks crews their streets. >> it's a one block town. the border isn't even close to here. >> imagine in order to take your kids to school, you had to answer to an armed federal agent. >> i don't need reasonable suspicion. >> that's thede law. >> they might want to ask you about the medical history. >> on other days they might decide they want might decide they want glenn: you can't get out on the road now if somebody doesn't s stop you. they think everybody out here is a criminal. >> these are the kind of experiences people are having on a daily basis and it flies into the face of what it means to live in a free society. >> leave us alone. just big brother.
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big brother looking at us, you know. >> am i being detained. >> so more americans are pushing back. >> why am i being detained. >> james refused d to answer extra questions. >> where are you coming from? >> why? >> why don't you pull over y? there? >> why? answer mydi question. do you have a gun in the vehicle. >> they could have just said i don't have a weapon. theyd asked him a series of questions that were none of their business and they didn't have authority to ask him. he asserted his rights. >> which led to this. >> get him out of the vehicle now. >> why are you twisting my arm. >> because you're not listening to me. >> he was pulled out of his karat gun point. detained in handcuffs for an hourile agents tore apart his car. >> i bet the border
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patrol agents would say come on rick this is hardly a threat to your liberty. just tell us where you're going. >> i answered 17 questions. i produced a military id, a driver's license and two passports. >> so if it was your job phone number a border guard and someone didn't want to answer questions, wouldn't you want to detain them. >> you might want to, but unless -- >> i'm suspicious because you won't answer questions. >> lack of answering questions can't be usedis as a basis. this is a person who has done nothing wrong and finds himself surrounded by armed government agents with dogs. >> the border patrol would not respond to our questions about this. so congressman peter king defended the agents. >> i think of border patrol as border patrol. these are inlands. >> if there's reasonable cause to do it, you can do it.s when people come into
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this country legally they don't stand on the border, they keep going. >> if people aren't immediately compliant they'll break a window. they'll break a window. >> i'm not aware of any significant abuses at all. if anything the complaints we get, there's not enough strict enforcement.gh >> isn't there something un-american about 100 miles from the border -- >> we live in a very upsetting world. >> americans have the right to be free in their own country. real freedom lies in theal thin space that separates an american citizen from an armed member of their government. >> that thin line keeps getting thinner because authorities keep inventing new tools. >> they use micro sensors to navigate and track targets. stossel: coming up, drones keep getting smaller and trickier.
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on. stossel: america locks up more of its people than any other country. >> one reason is mandatory sentences. stossel: mandatory minimum jail sentences why lorns spent more than a decade in jail. they were about to graduate from college when the fbi raided their home. >> they slammed my brother on the ground, put us on handcuffs and showed us a picture, do you know this guy? >> the brothers were arrested for cocaine conspiracy. >> but they found no property, no money, no drugs. stossel: no drugs? never sold any drugs? >> no. the brothers denied they even used guns, but some dealers said they seen them dealing at a car repair shop. why name you. >> i did legitimate repair on a car, the dealers by pointing to
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these two, reduced their sentences. >> they will lie just to make you look a horrible person. they made us look like some drug lords. stossel: mandatory minimums encourage crooks to implicate others. >> then the prosecutor might lower your sentence. >> that gives me incentive to make stuff up. >> and people do. >> snitch is not a bad word in my vocabulary. that's a good word. you know, criminals, murderers, they don't deal with the choir boys. >> you can find that out if somebody is lying. lisa became a prosecutor right after law school. she's jailed even a few hit man. >> most of you prosecutors like these mandatory minimums why? >> it's more control for the prosecutor. >> and less control for the drugs. the judge's hands are
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tied. no matter what the unique circumstances of the crime or the victim or the defendant. nothing matters. >> the judge can't do anything. you can't say this is nuts. >> they complain about this all the time. they apologize to defendants. they say i'm sorry i have to do this, but i can't do anything else. >> a judge apologized to scott earl. he met a woman in a bar. >> she was working for the cops. he didn't know at the time. he never sold any pills, but set up meetings where she could get pills. >> introduce her to a supplier. >> for that he was given a 25 mandatory minimum sentence. >> the judge said, this punishment does not fit the crime. with great reluctance i will have to sentence the defendant to 25 years. >> judges are you begging the legislatures to change the law. >> harsh sentence and if
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you pled with the prosecutor before you got to this stage, you wouldn't be facing that. >> prosecutors want to avoid long trials. it persuades people to plead guilty. >> i have had grown men on a drug bust just burst out in tears, weeping. why? mandatory minimums. >> if you plead guilty, you won't get the mandatory minimum, but if a defendant says, hey, look i'm not a drug trafficker. i want to tell a jury my side of the story. prosecutors drop the hammer. >> why would the prosecutor be a hard guy about it. >> they want to go to voters and say look at my conviction rate. >> former john korman won his senate seat after bragging about being tough on the bad guys. >> they're the only people left to defend -- >> some states have tougher minimums than others. >> i work in florida.
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we have mandatory minimums for drug laws that are probably the worst in the country. stossel: the toughest in the country? >> the worst and the toughest. stossel: if you're caught with 22 pain pills without a prescription, you get an automatic three years in jail. forty-four pills: seven years. some of these laws feel like a panicked response to fear of drugs. >> a panicked response? i don't think so. we're talking about hard-core dealers here. when you're talking about someone going out and selling -- 22 pills. that's not somebody using. that's somebody selling. >> but the pain management institute said that could less than a week prescription. >> they're low level users. you have addicts who are being picked up and charged with prison. >> like the garrison brothers. though they weren't drug users. they demanded a trial, but the jury believed the snitches. >> you got almost 20
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years and the snitch? >> under three years. the message is make something up about somebody. >> exactly. stossel: if proponents are correct, we should two things, when they're imposed the crime rate should go down. when they're repealed the crime rate should go up. >> michigan repealed -- they've saved billions of dollars and the crime rate has fallen 20 percent. stossel: next, more drones are coming. smaller, creepier big brother has new ways to watch. that's next
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stossel: what does privacy mean when those are things flying around? the personal drone is getting cheaper. it makes it easier to spy on your neighbors. but before we get to drones, let's start with the big story.
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>> new revelations about the federal government's spying on our phone lines. stossel: edward's snowden's -- learning that makes lots of people mad. >> get a specific warrant based on probable cause or stay out of our lives. >> what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business. >> senator rand paul sued the government for collecting those phone logs without getting warrants for each person. >> i think there is a fourth amendment protection to your records. >> the fourth amendment for bids unreasonable searches and seizures. >> when they passed that they were thinking about the british soldiers coming into your home going through your drawer. >> right. >> this is just data mining. >> here's the problem, they're tell you they're protecting us, they have privacy controls in place, but i've got a news flash for you, sometimes the government doesn't tell the truth. >> i can't see what rand
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paul is yelling about. there's not one example of political abuse. >> he says political abuse because nsa admits do abuse called love int. it monitored nine phone numbers of female nationals. >> that happens all the time. you have police officers, fbi agents. any time there's access to something like this, there's a potential for abuse. in these cases, these guys were caught. stossel: how much have they not disclosed. >> you can say that about every government in the country. stossel: nsa spying saves lives, they say. the nsa prevented a plot to bomb new york city's subway and prevented a somali immigrant from sending money to terrorists. >> fifty-four terrorist attacks were foiled. >> these were terrorist things we prevented on cross-examination before the committee, every one of them was eviscerated.
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they get down to one smollian guy. i think he would have been caught through other means. >> would the nsa lie? >> does the nsa collect any type of data on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> it does not? >> not wittingly. >> yet the nsa does and quite wittingly. >> he lied? >> no, he didn't. this was a classified program that he didn't want the enemy to know about. i'm sure he could have given a better answer, but when you're confronted. >> what would have been a better answer. >> i don't know. the fact is the nsa doesn't listen to the phone calls. i'm all for looking at that person's records if you get a warrant. stossel: but it delays the investigation. >> there's a rapist in d.c. they call a judge in front of his house
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and the judge has to be available 24 hours a day. do you think the judge almost ever says no. if the judge says yes, how does a warrant protect us. >> let's say i want all the records of all the republicans who live in texas. then the judge will say no. it a great protection. i won't give up on it because i fear the time when somebody in government becomes not so well-intentioned. i don't think president obama is a bad man. his motivates are good, motives. we'd catch more terrorists without tracking every phone call. >> we take our eye off the prize by spending so much time mining information from innocent individuals and spend less time targeting our activities. we had two boys, the boston bombers. >> russia warned america about them. they didn't keep an eye on them. one boy was radicalized
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there. he wason a plane the two brothers set off that bomb at the boston marathon. >> they're so busy tapping our phone, they don't pay attention. >> it's there, but if we see a terrorist phone number from overseas coming into the us then we can track that down. stossel: do you ever worry about the police going too far in these cases, that america is becoming like a police state? >> well, sure, but that's -- stossel: we're not even close to that? >> not even close. stossel: we are says technology writer ted. >> we have these cameras on our phones, tablets, on our ipads. stossel: not when a hacker has control of it, no light. or the fbi. the police can turn this on remotely without the light going on and spy on us. >> i don't know if the police can do it or not. stossel: but they can. >> but they're not doing. stossel: as far as we know.
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>> that leads to paranoia. you could be spying on me. how did i know that you didn't do it. the fbi admitted to secretly spying through a laptop. and when you're on your cell phone, they know where you are, they can turn on the microphone at any given moment, even though you've turned your phone off, they can still operate the microphone to listen to what's going on around your phone. >> that's scary and perhaps equally scary is now your neighbor can buy one of these. a personal drone. sheila! you see this ball control?
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stossel: our military has big plans. here's a sample of what's coming. >> lethal, micro air vehicles. mavs will use micro sensors and micro processor technology to navigate targets through complicated tear b terrain. it can be equipped with explosives for -- stossel: forget spying. these things can be turned into weapons. perhaps even creepier, today you can buy a drone. this one is called the phantom vision. you can buy one now for just $500. $1,200 if you add a
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camera. even a simpleton can do it. and back down gently. sit. people use these to get amazing video. this is niagara falls. this man sells drones. he says farmers love them. >> you can fly on over their crop rather than having them walk out over the crop and inspect their crop. they fly a drone over their crop. they get footage in three minutes. we have realtors who use them now to take aerial views of their house. >> i hope they practice first. we're having a little problem. i crashed the thing trying to learn. it's only 2 pounds, but i would think you could hurt people. they're only 500 -- oh, it's a weed wha what wacker.
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>> once we got the drones gps working, it was easy to control. the gps makes it easy so you don't lose your drone. i can take it over here and it will go back where -- or it should to where it was set. all this is very cool, but if anyone can buy these, what does it mean for our privacy. >> now, what will happen is video of -- i don't know people sunbathing in the back of their own house or just simply someone looking through someone's neighborhood to see what's inside. >> that was pretty cool until it started taking pictures of my wife over there. these women were willing participants. it's noisy, but high in the air it would be easy to spy on people who didn't know. and the next generation of drones will be less noticeable. this one looks like a
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hummingbird. >> it's great. i'll get one as soon as i can. >> that worries rand paul. my neighbor has one and i said if i see it over my property, my shotgun is coming out. >> as a joke a fellow senator gave paul this mini drone. >> it does fly. we can get it to fly. we'll see. >> okay. i guess we don't have to worry about the senator spying on us. paul points out that america already has privacy rules. >> someone can't come in and look in your window. you're not allowed to look over the fence into someone's backyard at their hot tub neither should a drone. >> some people say, hey, look, i've got nothing to hide. why should i care? well, then why do you have drapes. >> good point. and coming up, the rare case where our government actually stepped back
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stossel: smell that? it's marijuana. it's illegal here in new york state, but washington state and colorado just legalized it not just for medical use, for any use. legalization supporters cheered when voters said yes. most colorado politicians had opposed legalization. >> the question looming over colorado governor, now what? >> our voters want marijuana to be regulated. like alcohol. >> and that's the plan.
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on january 1st, this iraq war vet made the first legal purchase. i couldn't be more excited. huge. changing the world. >> changing it for the worst say those who once ruled over the drug world. >> we're incentivizing use in the marketplace. kevin works for three presidents most recently in president obama's drug czar office. colorado will soon realize its mistake. >> if we go in colorado in the next month, we'll start seeing the problems. >> we're already seeing the problems. >> some kids have gotten a hold of marijuana, but there haven't been many problems. denver looked normal. it's hard to see who is high. easier to see who is drunk. but there's no longer a war on weed in washington or colorado. the war kills people. runs over people. >> let's end the war in a different way. better prevention. better law enforcement.
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stossel: we've been trying that for decades. >> not at the scale we need. stossel: not at the scale. for 40 years americans have spent a trillion dollars trying to spent drugs. police still make an arrest for marijuana possession every 48 seconds. we lock up more people than any other country. >> we should be ashamed about it that doesn't mean we replace one tragedy of incarceration which would be a public health problem with legalization. >> a law enforcement's job is to protect people from each other. we can't protect them from themselves. >> for 36 years tony was a cop in denver. >> people are r fighting over the territories. they're killing each other. the way to solve the problem with illegal drugs is to legalize them. >> seattle police have gotten into the spirit of legalization. at a pot rally these cop handed out a bag of doritos with signs, we
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thought you might be hungry. >> they're laughing with the kids. the reality that weed gives some people the munchies and the reality that people were already getting high. >> you don't have to leave the schools to get marijuana. it's already there. >> denver's medicine man sold marijuana to medical patients before. now owner randy williams has more customers. when we first started, it was scary. i would wake up once a week and believe i was in federal prison. >> williams runs the shop with his brother and mom. they made a million dollars in the first month of legalization. >> legality brings peace. >> it also brings mass commercialization. >> we're about to create the next rj reynolds or marlboro of marijuana. >> marl broorboro doesn't have gangs shooting up their homes. >> it kills in indirect ways like driving while stoned.
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>> we'll see more drivers that are driving high. >> they run humorous ads to try to get marijuana users to think about what they do when they're impaired. playing ball when high is now legal. driving to see the pros play is dh, you get a dui. state patrol. and can you still see the vehicle? >> okay. stossel: colorado asks motorist to report reckless drivers. with alcohol you can use a breath test, but there's no comparable measurement for marijuana. a blood test would show marijuana use. >> we may have to take an individual to a hospital or other medical facility for that. >> even then a sober person might test positive for marijuana because marijuana can stay in your blood for a week. colorado troopers begin in what they call drug recognition experts. >> don says he's been trade to understand
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marijuana's affects on people. >> you might see their eyelids have -- bloodshot. the trooper smelled alcohol. did you have anything to drink while you were there? a couple of hours ago. >> what did you have. >> i had a whisky. she redundancy the driver through a series of tests called roadsides. these tests are the same whether they did suspect the driver is stoned or drunk. >> from that position. one, two, three, this driver passed the test so they let him go. with marijuana now legal, some worry stoned drivers will cause for deadly car accidents, but so far that hasn't happened. others feared a reefer madness crime wave. >> violence, murder. >> but that hasn't happened either. >> in denver, crime is down. >> we're here, we're doing it, we don't see
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reefer madness. >> security is important. but sometimes fewer laws, less policing make life better. that's our show. thanks for watching. while governor of maine went to court. governor paula pag paul lepage o court because the nurse in center of the ebola controversy refuseed governor's request to stay indoors and isolate herself for 21 days,ers in kaci hickox defied state authorities just as she did in new jersey after she arrived at newark airport from westaff car, governor lepage vowing to useful extending of his power, asking court to enforce a quarantine on hickox,

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