Violent Crime and Drug Abuse

While psychiatrists claim an expertise in addressing delinquency and criminal behavior, vio-lent crime rates throughout the European Union, Australia and Canada have recently begun to equal and even surpass those in the United States. Between 1975 and 2000, crime rose:
97% in France,
145% in England, and
410% in Spain.

In the Netherlands, the violent crime rate almost doubled between 1996 and 2001.

Between 1965 and 2001 in the United States, drug abuse for children and adolescents soared more than 2,900%.

In Germany, three quarters of the country’s teenagers have used hash.

Imagine this scenario: You are concerned about 2% of your students being drug abusers. You read about an “expert” who says he can handle this problem. You interview him and he tells you that he is an authority and will take care of it for you. No problem. So you bring him into the school system. A year later, 20% of your students have a drug problem.

You call in the expert and ask why you now have a more serious drug problem.

He replies, without blinking, “You’re right. It’s a real problem. This year I’m going to need twice as much money. The first thing I’m going to do is get another expert to do a study on the problem. Then, depending on his findings, I’m going to have to hire a couple more experts to help me and, by the end of the year, we’ll have the problem licked.”

Would you reach for the checkbook or throw him out?

Governments using taxpayers’ money have hired just such experts. They are psychiatrists and psychologists. And they claimed to be the experts who would take care of society’s drug problem, crime, violence and education problems. They also said they would take care of our mentally ill and cure them. And they have been paid not millions, but hundreds of billions of dollars to perform these functions. And they have failed to deliver.

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