So who’s looking forward to Jeff Sessions leading the way to a new decimation of minority neighborhoods all in the name of a new War on Drugs?

Because it sure as hell looks like it’ll happen, post-haste

But there was one person who watched these developments with some horror. Steven H. Cook, a former street cop who became a federal prosecutor based in Knoxville, Tenn., saw nothing wrong with how the system worked — not the life sentences for drug charges, not the huge growth of the prison population. And he went everywhere — Bill O’Reilly’s show on Fox News, congressional hearings, public panels — to spread a different gospel.

“The federal criminal justice system simply is not broken. In fact, it’s working exactly as designed,” Cook said at a criminal justice panel at The Washington Post last year.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has brought Cook into his inner circle at the Justice Department, appointing him to be one of his top lieutenants to help undo the criminal justice policies of Obama and former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. As Sessions has traveled to different cities to preach his tough-on-crime philosophy, Cook has been at his side.

Sessions has yet to announce specific policy changes, but Cook’s new perch speaks volumes about where the Justice Department is headed.

Law enforcement officials say that Sessions and Cook are preparing a plan to prosecute more drug and gun cases and pursue mandatory minimum sentences. The two men are eager to bring back the national crime strategy of the 1980s and ’90s from the peak of the drug war, an approach that had fallen out of favor in recent years as minority communities grappled with the effects of mass incarceration.

These assholes are signaling for the greatest crackdown since the 80s, and it’s obvious who’s going to bear the brunt of it. This despite, you know, the amount of drug related violence not rising in any appreciable way since we went ‘soft on crime’, as they put it. To hear them say it, we’re still a drug ravaged hellhole. if they want to see drugs and ravaging, look at the fucking opiod crisis…but I forget, that’s not a crime epidemic, that’s a health epidemic since the ones suffering the worst of it aren’t fucking brown.