The NYT has details. Can you say “Pay to play”? I was sure that you could.
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out. Books: Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken) When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993) Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989) UCLA Homepage Curriculum Vitae Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com View all posts by Mark Kleiman
It’s about time the MSM and liberal blogosphere paid attention to this story. It only took the NYT a week after the WSJ ran an op-ed to catch up. If you read Volokh more often you’d also have been on this last week. 😉
JHA
They were.
And it turns out that the WSJ was just following the Dallas Morning News. Let’s hear it for the mainstream media!