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> It's also worth mentioning that our population is only 792K. Most of the homeland security money funding surveillance is likely tied to DFW being along a maj

by dsl 10y ago

> It's also worth mentioning that our population is only 792K. Most of the homeland security money funding surveillance is likely tied to DFW being along a major drug distribution corridor coming up from Mexico, and has nothing to do with the local population.

sjg007 10y ago
Thank god for the Wall!!!
- oxide 10y ago
  IMO you underestimate cartels. It's been back and forth since the start of the drug war. Sure, people walk it over occasionally. They have submersibles, tunnels dug waiting to be completed North Korean style, functional tunnels, etc. I'd bet they have drones, or are R&Ding drone smuggling. Cars and trucks coming through the border, decoy cars and trucks meant to be discovered so that something bigger gets through. Trap doors in sedans, faked shipments in trucks, shipping containers in ports with falsified information hidden among the masses of imports. These guys are not going to pack up shop and sell bars of soap because of a wall. Where there is a will, there is a way. If you were joking, I'm sorry for assuming otherwise. Poe's Law, I suppose. My point is that the demand is incredibly high. Drugs that are worth very little along that corridor are worth much, much more on the streets of the US. People will continue to risk life and limb, as well as take life and limb, as long as the War on Drugs continues. The potential profit is too great.
  - stevehawk 10y ago
    I'd bet a dollar he was being sarcastic.
digler999 10y ago
and what happens when you're a department that takes in $x million in federal funds but you aren't raking in as many criminals as projected (or you rake them in, and there aren't any left) ? Have to make use of that budget somehow, or else you'll lose all your cool high-tech toys. I know, let's point the surveillance at people not suspected of a crime. We can certainly find criminals if we search hard enough, and thanks to Parallel Construction, they never even know how we found them.

by dsl 10y ago

sjg007 10y ago

Thank god for the Wall!!!

oxide 10y ago
IMO you underestimate cartels. It's been back and forth since the start of the drug war. Sure, people walk it over occasionally. They have submersibles, tunnels dug waiting to be completed North Korean style, functional tunnels, etc. I'd bet they have drones, or are R&Ding drone smuggling. Cars and trucks coming through the border, decoy cars and trucks meant to be discovered so that something bigger gets through. Trap doors in sedans, faked shipments in trucks, shipping containers in ports with falsified information hidden among the masses of imports. These guys are not going to pack up shop and sell bars of soap because of a wall. Where there is a will, there is a way. If you were joking, I'm sorry for assuming otherwise. Poe's Law, I suppose. My point is that the demand is incredibly high. Drugs that are worth very little along that corridor are worth much, much more on the streets of the US. People will continue to risk life and limb, as well as take life and limb, as long as the War on Drugs continues. The potential profit is too great.
- stevehawk 10y ago
  I'd bet a dollar he was being sarcastic.

digler999 10y ago

and what happens when you're a department that takes in $x million in federal funds but you aren't raking in as many criminals as projected (or you rake them in, and there aren't any left) ? Have to make use of that budget somehow, or else you'll lose all your cool high-tech toys. I know, let's point the surveillance at people not suspected of a crime. We can certainly find criminals if we search hard enough, and thanks to Parallel Construction, they never even know how we found them.