Saturday, November 30, 2024
Peter Christ was a wise man who promulgated a lesson in empathy and understanding taught to him by his father. Peter spoke of “looking in the mirror” when you look at a fellow human being. He along with four other retired police officers formed Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), an international nonprofit educational organization that sought to end the War on Drugs. Peter spoke of “morality policing” as cause of a subverted policing mission. And he spoke in those terms recommending a book written by a former fellow LEAP director, myself, “The Silver Bullet Solution, Is it time to end the War on Drugs?” These were Peter’s words: “Gierach recognizes that making drugs a federal, state or local law enforcement matter mistakenly transforms policing into ‘morality policing,’ subverting the policing mission, and criminalizing consensual adult behavior that is not a crime.”
__Peter Christ, Retired Police Captain Town of Tonawanda Police Department, N.Y. and co-founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), now known as Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP).
Bless you and yours, the Honorable Peter Christ, Peace Officer.
James E. Gierach
