Mile High Cops.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: Denver - 52 of 80 new police recruits admit to prior drug use - Brief Article

The first obstacle to securing a position in the CIA is its strict policy against hiring anyone who has used illegal drugs. Apparently, local police do not face nearly so stringent a requirement. Jesse Katz of the Los Angeles Times recently obtained redacted versions of the applications filled out by Denver's 80 new police recruits last year. Fifty-two of them--that's 65 percent--confessed to prior drug use. In surveys of the general population, by contrast, only about half of...