COP on the Hill:

Stories from the week of April 14, 2023

Solid Question: Difficult/Painful Answer:

For the first time in the history of the world, a staffer asked me, if I had had a moment/epiphany in my career that caused me to become anti- drug war.  This after 20 minutes of xcl discussion on the drug war.  I paused and related the story (see below) and SOB, I choked up, hard.  I went on to state that my profession was missing pedophiles, as we wasted so much time on drugs, choking up again, damn near in tears.

He then related being an assistant District Attorney in a very large city.  One of the first cases he caught involved child porn (story below: Trigger Warning – it is v v ugly).  Both of us became emotional and we had a long pause, before we finished the chat.

The Good News is that I am still able to be a human being from time to time versus a robot going from presentation to presentation, now more than 5,000 since I arrive here in 2005.

Weekly Activities:

3982 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 4 this week…

COP stats since inception: August 2009

359 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 0 this week….

109 Appearances/Interviews on major TV/Radio/Print media. 0 This week.

439 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs, etc   0 this week

96 Radio Interviews:  0 this week;

215 interviews and reports in minor media …0 this week –

33 major conferences attended – CPAC 2023, (3 UN drug conferences in Vienna, Austria),  LULAC, NRA, CBC, ASA, DPA, Dem & Repub. Presidential conventions., National Review, Republican Annual Retreat etc.) 0 this week

in the past – Blaze TV {new, popular right-wing}, (Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, BBC, CNN, NPR, OAN, German, Swiss, French, Spanish TV and radio) Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Grand Rapids Press + 9 other MI papers. Chicago Tribune, Honolulu Star Advertiser {foto and caption}, Reason Magazine, Reuters

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