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>At Europol, Lecouffe has explained that, although he was of course unsurprised to find that criminals used violence, he was shocked at “the level of violence”
by upofadown 4y ago
>At Europol, Lecouffe has explained that, although he was of course unsurprised to find that criminals used violence, he was shocked at “the level of violence” in Europe.
It isn't like they can settle their differences in drug court. Black markets and the associated attempts to shut them down naturally generate violence. The people involved literally have no other choice.
- vasco 4y agoThey have plenty of choices, like not doing crime or participate in black markets, what are you talking about.
- tsimionescu 4y agoI don't think GP was making a bleeding heart argument for the poor drug cartel enforcers, they were simply pointing out that a drug cartel can only use violence to respond to any perceived injustice (or ignore it and eventually dissolve, of course), there are no non-violent means to solve disputea between cartels.
- vasco 4y agoEven that isn't true, there's history of cooperation and sharing markets by delineating borders among criminal groups. But ultimately they simply can do a normal job instead of crime. It's not like they're born and "all I can do is kill because I'm in a cartel", oopsie.