Pete Buttigieg is mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
The crime rate in South Bend is higher than 96% of all U.S. cities, according to city-data.com. Drugs are rampant in the city, which lies east of Chicago. The incarceration rate is also soaring in Indiana, according to prisonpolicy.org.
So, of course, it makes sense that Buttigieg, who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, wants to legalize all kinds of drugs.
“Incarceration should not even be a response to drug possession,” Buttigieg told editors and reporters at the Des Moines Register.
“Is that across the board? So if it’s meth or coke or ecstasy, any drugs, if it’s possession, incarceration isn’t…” one editor asked.
“That’s right,” Buttigieg said.
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BRILLIANT: Mayor Pete Wants to Decriminalize 'Meth, Coke, Ecstasy' And Heroin