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Perhaps these street gangs have learned from their drug suppliers? When drug cartel planes out of Colombia started getting shot down as a result of anti-drug o
by jakarta 17y ago
Perhaps these street gangs have learned from their drug suppliers?
When drug cartel planes out of Colombia started getting shot down as a result of anti-drug operations, the cartels started pooling cocaine shipments together in airplanes as a means of sharing the risk amongst each other.
- pavel_lishin 17y agoThat doesn't sound like a great idea. If you're one of 10 cartels, it seems like your chances of being shot down are 1/10. (Not really, but let's just posit that the gov't can shoot down one plane a day.) If you pool everything together on one plane, suddenly your odds of making some deer and coyotes very jittery shoot up by 10.
- jakarta 17y agoOnly a finite amount can be pooled on a plane though. So instead of possibly losing 100% of your shipment if you are one lone cartel flying your cocaine to the US and it is shot down, you can now only lose 10% of your shipment. This could be one of many reasons why VCs team up and do deals together.
- brown9-2 17y agoI would also assume that less flights overall equals a lower amount of shot-down planes.