Not too long ago an on the street interviewer had his crew focus the camera Ona drug deal going on a block away from a group of cops standing on the sidewalk socializing. He called their attention to the crime in progress and one middle-aged officer said frankly that the judge would only let them go and so made no move to do anything. The cop knew which side his bread is buttered on. Like many cops, he knows the drug dealer is, in a sense, his employer. He knows the "war on drugs" is a joke.