> Computer technology got us the lowest murder rate in a century.

COMPSTAT certainly helped.

I guess the difference here is that "War on Drugs" directly funneled money into police. It isn't tangential. It's directly related.

Now, if you want to say the War on Drugs had massive amounts of waste and other related societal harms, then sure. Over-incarceration, "stop-and-frisk" violations, etc.