HPD series studies ice epidemic

By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer

•	'War on Drugs' 7 tonight KHON-2

The show, like earlier outings, is part crime documentary, part recruiting film.

In this episode, Chief Lee D. Donohue emphasizes how crystal methamphetamine has infiltrated Islanders' everyday lives, breaking up families and creating havoc for victims and neighborhoods.

The program, like Edgy Lee's eye-opening ice documentary earlier this year, concludes that it takes a partnership — of police, the judicial system, families that cope with ice users and the victims — to continually work at eradicating ice, even if it means turning in a loved one.

Using real faces and voices from the ranks of the police department, folks involved in the rehabilitation of convicted abusers, judges and government officials, "War on Drugs" shows that the combat is not always in the trenches of a foreign country; the battle zone can be down the street or in a bedroom at your home.

A couple of specific drug-related crimes are re-enacted, showing how ice users steal, burglarize, pawn, sell, even kill to obtain drugs.

As Detective Miles Jung says: This drug and crime go hand in hand.

Prosecutor Peter Carlisle calls for community involvement to curb what he calls a "terrible, terrible drug."

U.S. Attorney Ed Kubo characterizes the prevalence of ice as "a crisis facing our society and killing our children."

The program shows how polic comb crime scenes to seek evidence, and provides moments of enlightenment on how the police work.