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S.F. has been trying to arrest more Tenderloin and SoMa drug dealers
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoMaybe arrest the rich entitled buyers? No more money in it, the sellers would dry up.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoArresting a single distributor means individuals may be less likely to find their fix. Arresting a single user doesn't meaningfully reduce anything, as there are always more users. This is a similar logic to how the law enforcement around pirating works. Downloading pirated stuff is illegal, yeah, but distributing pirated stuff is more illegal.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoThe marginal effect, yes. But it's a long game. Go after rich people, persist for some time, advertise it, they get gun-shy, stay away, find other channels. Street sellers would indeed dry up. Follow the money.
- thfuran 3y agoPlus, when they nab a dealer they get to brag about seizing eleventy billion dollars of heroin or whatever. The math gets difficult to strain that far when they just bag a user.