A large problem is the cops are not paid enough to want to risk their lives in a neighborhood where drugs & cash are willing to pay someone who has nothing to lose. Having nothing to lose is one of the scariest motivations.
The real conversation should be about having nothing to lose & what type of motivation that can bring to someone in a neighborhood full of people with nothing or very little.
Another similar conversation needs to be brought up about the ridiculous drug culture here in America.
What are the prices of these drugs & who uses them? Let's start asking serious questions: Who in America has not used any form of drugs? For those of you who don't use or never have, how many of you partake in trafficking, transporting, & or distribution of illicit substances?
America has made a pretty penny off rehab centers & resorts, oh wait not to mention... a fueling drug economy across the west coast, mid-west, & east coast.
Many can say they have 'never' used or been a part of this type of economy & while that may be true & those people are admirable. The sad reality is go to a college town, go to a cool town, go to a city, & if you look on the surface without turning over a stone you will find the darkness of what is this drug economy. Would you dare enter a ghetto? No. Most of you will never enter a real ghetto/slum regardless of which minority inhabits such place & I will give some very basic reasons why: The cost of life in such places can be lowered. Rent could be 50% lower in these places, but that's not going to warrant a gentrification of the harshest ghettos. We don't pay cops enough to risk their lives against addicts with guns, addicts are unpredictable. Honestly, this list could go on & on.
Just ask yourselves one simple question, would you move into the ghetto for cheap rent? No organic food? Very little security? Multiple gang factions selling their products? Multiple dealers finding new ways & methods to put their drugs into the suburbs... the reality is even though the ghetto uses a high amount of crack, heroin... so on. Drugs are in the suburbs & being paid for by the working class of America.
Drugs need to be the clear focus of 2020. As a country we need to say no, we need to say no with a focused plan.
When I google the routes in which drugs enter this country, I don't want to see arrows pointing into this country! When drug prices are the lowest they have ever been in history, that means there is an overwhelming supply as well as an overwhelming demand. The supply needs to be dealt with as much as the demand.
$20.00 should not be enough to get you high.
$100.00 should not be enough to get you high.
$500.00 should not be enough to get you high.
1 gram of coke, meth, crack, heroin, should be $1000.00 USD or more. It should be so rare & difficult to find that our youth ought not find any interest in the product, period. Our youth ought not find any reason be it depression, anxiety, gang, violence, broken home, any reason what so ever ought not be good enough to try something that costs as much as a car... but when lunch money can be saved to buy an 8ball, maybe something is wrong on a global level that ought to be discussed in public.
Sources: don't even bother with drugs inc, or all these shows which glorify drugs everywhere, just go to the ghetto & try not to be robbed, ask a what appears to be a "hard" looking fellow for some direction, he'll help you out!