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What's HIDTA? Is that the "high intensity drug trafficking area"? What does that have to do with cop-watching? Maybe they're trying to plant some cocaine on thi

• AtlasBarfed 3y ago
  The drug divisions almost all police departments in all major cities are completely riddled with corruption. They're dealing with the primary monetary fault line of organized crime and gangs. And drug enforcement is their big cover for almost all abuses. We need to decriminalize and end the drug war, if only just to stop the Mexican drug gangs. To take it to a higher geopolitical level... China is likely undergo a demographic collapse soon and possibly one due to totalitarian government paralysis. The geopolitical significance of petroleum is vastly decreasing with EVs American bakken shale oil supply and alternative energy. That means the u.s probably will not be policing the oceans as much to enable free extended trade and logistics lines. So we will be onshoring manufacturer, and likely a great deal of it in Mexico. So we're going to need to solve the Mexican drug problem and our drug war in a constructive manner in the next decade