What, as a society, can we show for the Drug War? Well, for starters, we have the most populated prison population in the world, thanks in part, to drug arrests. Also, the police have militarized, which can be traced back to a law passed in the 1980s which allowed for the transfer of surplus military grade weaponry to police departments. This militarization in weaponry also comes with a change in psychological on part of police. A contingency of police have developed a mindset where they view the people