Editing Police brutality (section)

=== Hard on drugs campaigns ===

In nations with a reputation for having a high number of drug-related issues, including gang violence, drug trafficking, and overdose deaths, one common solution that government will enact is a collective campaign against drugs that spans the entirety of the state's establishment. Changes to address these issues encompass education, bureaucracy, and, most notably, law enforcement policy and tactics. Law enforcement agencies expand and receive more funding to attack drug problems in communities. Acceptance of harsher policing tactics grows as well, as an {{em|any means necessary}} philosophy develops within the law enforcement community and the militarization of local police forces.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cato.org/blog/police-violence-racist-drug-war |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=cato.org |title=Archived copy |archive-date=9 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209133537/https://www.cato.org/blog/police-violence-racist-drug-war |url-status=live}}</ref> However, many studies have concluded that these efforts are in vain, as the drug market has grown in such nations despite anti-drug policies. For example, in the United States, critics of the War on Drugs waged by the government have been very vocal about the ineffectiveness of the policy, citing an increase in drug-related crimes and overdoses since President Nixon first introduced this policy.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cooper |first=Hannah LF |year=2015 |title=War on Drugs Policing and Police Brutality |journal=Substance Use & Misuse |volume=50 |issue=8–9 |pages=1188–1194 |doi=10.3109/10826084.2015.1007669 |issn=1082-6084 |pmc=4800748 |pmid=25775311}}</ref>