> If that's true, why are drugs still a problem when we've had the War on Drugs for decades? You seem to be reading his claim thusly: "The vast majority of dru

> If that's true, why are drugs still a problem when we've had the War on Drugs for decades? You seem to be reading his claim thusly: "The vast majority of drug dealers get caught; this happens because they were fingered by informants". This certainly does not seem plausible. I took that sentence differently: "When we look at the subset of drug dealers who got caught, we can see that most of them were arrested after being identified by informants."