Not enough drug dealers arrested and charged

DEAR EDITOR:

Re: “Surviving long enough to live,” by Joe Fries (page A1, Dec. 31).

I read with interest the lead article and would like to ask one question: Why do we never see the drug dealers supplying tainted drugs getting arrested and charged with causing the deaths? More people have died from overdoses than COVID-19.

One can only surmise police are incompetent or they are being restrained from taking the actions that will bring this epidemic of deaths from drug overdoses to an end.

Besides our politicians addressing the problems in society that cause people to become addicts, it is obvious that a special enforcement unit needs to be set up to eliminate from society the people who are supplying tainted drugs.

The 983 deaths in 2019 due to drug overdoses in B.C. was already passed with 1,068 deaths by the end of August.

Clearly, a new approach needs to be taken against the suppliers of drugs, both tainted and otherwise, as the approach taken so far is simply not working.

Brian Sutch, Vernon