Another mystery is why the police have not used the cellphone data to take out every dealer. They would only have to do so a city at a time to put the fear into

Another mystery is why the police have not used the cellphone data to take out every dealer. They would only have to do so a city at a time to put the fear into everyone nationwide. The text messages are always incriminating only if you pretend to be naive and a stickler for evidence (wanting to see the drugs) can the nature of the messages be denied. America is different, but in the pre-cellphone UK there were pubs to meet dealers in. After a beer and a walk to the car the transaction could be made. A fully legit landline call could be made to arrange meeting up for a beer, no code words needed. With cell phones and messaging there is invariably some discussion on quantity required, hence evidence one would think would be good for court. Coupled with this change there has been woeful cutbacks to policing in the UK so there are no resources for clearing drugs out of a community. It sort of suits the government to have people stoned rather than demanding social change, people with drugs or related paraphernalia are not wanting to get in trouble with the authorities.