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New at Reason: Radley Balko on Three Drug War Deaths

Tarika Wilson, Jonathan Ayers, and Gonzalo Guizan were each killed in paramilitary drug operations in the last two years. None of the three were the actual targets of the investigations that led to their deaths. Reason Senior Editor Radley Balko looks at the three cases, and how three decades of battlefield rhetoric have enabled authorities to write off tragedies like these as mere collateral damage in the continuing war to stop people from getting high.

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