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"In Detroit, officials say that their busts have helped raise the street price of a kilogram of cocaine to roughly $43,000 from about $30,000." Doesn't that ju

by sosuke 12y ago

"In Detroit, officials say that their busts have helped raise the street price of a kilogram of cocaine to roughly $43,000 from about $30,000." Doesn't that just make the risk / reward proposition even more appealing to new recruits?

sebastianavina 12y ago
No matter what you do, if there is a market, all the supply chain is going to evolve.
veb 12y ago
What I took from this was someone else has probably taken over and raised the prices for no real reason other than "they can". (if people complain, they can point to the DEA -- making addicts hate them further! /s) Mind you, it's an interesting thing about the old man. Logic says he probably was very much in control, had no dementia etc when he started out. Probably thought "I'm old now, what do I have to lose?" and turned out to be excellent at what he did. It makes me wonder though... why did they keep him running, when they knew something was wrong with him, and that they knew his memory was deteriorating? From everything I have read about the Sinaloa Cartel, they're not that silly... but I guess they were this time. (they strike me as the sort of people who are not sentimental and would "get rid" of someone who was putting their local operation at risk...
- IndianAstronaut 12y ago
  >they strike me as the sort of people who are not sentimental and would "get rid" of someone who was putting their local operation at risk... "the cartels hired unskilled laborers to dig the tunnels, executing them afterward to preserve secrecy." http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201401/marijuana-railroad-mexican-drug-cartel-tunnels http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201401/marijuana-...
pakled_engineer 12y ago
Shootings always increase with the price too, as robbery becomes appealing to smaller gangs who will risk attacking established gangs for a huge reward. Here it was $70k per kilo during the summer and gunmen were everywhere shooting up restaurants and parking lots.

by sosuke 12y ago

sebastianavina 12y ago

No matter what you do, if there is a market, all the supply chain is going to evolve.

veb 12y ago

What I took from this was someone else has probably taken over and raised the prices for no real reason other than "they can". (if people complain, they can point to the DEA -- making addicts hate them further! /s) Mind you, it's an interesting thing about the old man. Logic says he probably was very much in control, had no dementia etc when he started out. Probably thought "I'm old now, what do I have to lose?" and turned out to be excellent at what he did. It makes me wonder though... why did they keep him running, when they knew something was wrong with him, and that they knew his memory was deteriorating? From everything I have read about the Sinaloa Cartel, they're not that silly... but I guess they were this time. (they strike me as the sort of people who are not sentimental and would "get rid" of someone who was putting their local operation at risk...

IndianAstronaut 12y ago
>they strike me as the sort of people who are not sentimental and would "get rid" of someone who was putting their local operation at risk... "the cartels hired unskilled laborers to dig the tunnels, executing them afterward to preserve secrecy." http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201401/marijuana-railroad-mexican-drug-cartel-tunnels http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201401/marijuana-...

pakled_engineer 12y ago

Shootings always increase with the price too, as robbery becomes appealing to smaller gangs who will risk attacking established gangs for a huge reward. Here it was $70k per kilo during the summer and gunmen were everywhere shooting up restaurants and parking lots.