Political Quotes

“I could not pass up this opportunity to come and tell this body that the concept of a drug court has been in place in Kansas City, MO, for about 2 years, and it is too early to say that this is the real solution. But the results, to date, are very spectacular. In Kansas City, drug offenses were clogging up the court system. We did not have the court resources available to provide full trials. We were getting citations. We did not have the prison space for the minor offenders. The drug court has been used with, apparently, a great deal of success for the nonviolent minor drug offenders in Kansas City. ... There have been about 200 people in the program in 2 years, only 10 have been rearrested. Some of them failed. The nice thing about a drug court is that if you fail the program, that is it, you go into jail. There is no question about it. But 60 people have completed the program. Only one has been rearrested.”