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Jay Fleming, LEAP

I'm a former deputy sheriff who worked 3 years in uniform and 12 years undercover narcotics. I have a lot of problems with things I did in the "name of the law". Today I'm a speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition or LEAP, a group of current and former cops, corrections, DEA, judges and other criminal justice people, who feel the war on drugs is a failed policy.

Personal Statement: Trust in our country is disappearing, parents can’t trust children, husbands can’t trust wives, and people can’t trust their government. Some how our country has lost site of some of the basic principals it was founded on. Those who are to protect us have gone from Peace Officer, to Law Enforcement Officer. Men in black uniforms with hoods over their faces break down doors, in the name of the law, many times killing innocent citizens. Criminals charged with major drug crimes who turn in several others for minor drug crimes, spend little or no time in jail. Undercover cops infiltrate and seize our homes and assets, take children from parents, over a plant that has never killed anyone. E. Jay Fleming 2004


recent blog posts by Jay Fleming, LEAP:

Dispensary make the same profits as drug dealers

Posted in Reader Blogs by Jay Fleming, LEAP on Tue, 02/06/2007 - 1:07pm

I live on the California border, so I keep up on medical marijuana there. I also have chronic pain from back surgery, so I understand the patients side. Dispensaries in California may be proving the other sides point.

Break traffic laws and not get in trouble? Want to be exempt? Become a cop

Posted in Reader Blogs by Jay Fleming, LEAP on Thu, 01/04/2007 - 2:48pm

It's possible for the police to attach a GPS tracking device your vehicle, enabling them to track your every move. That is unless you’re the police, their exempt, just ask the mayor.

In an article in the NLECTC Law Enforcement & Corrections Technology News

Being the Best "Bad Guy" You Can

Posted in Speakeasy Main by Jay Fleming, LEAP on Sun, 09/17/2006 - 8:03pm

Guest blogger Jay Fleming of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition points out a painful unintended consequence for police officers who do undercover work:

Undercover is being the best bad guy you can.

Retired Sheriff's Deputy Jay Fleming of LEAP Joins DRCNet Blogging Team -- Drugs, Crime and Conservation First Topic

Posted in Prohibition in the Media by Jay Fleming, LEAP on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 2:40pm

DRCNet is pleased to welcome Jay Fleming to the Speakeasy. Fleming was for many years a deputy sheriff and narcotics officer in Washington, Montana & Idaho. He is now retired in the US southwest (Arizona) and is a speaker with the organization Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). Fleming has graciously agreed to serve as a regular, featured guest blogger here in the Speakeasy, focusing on the impact of drug prohibition on the western United States.