On cops and corruption:
Cops need drug busts for funding.
It is a growth industry.
The real money is with the Mexican drug cartels, however.
How do you get all your 'drug busts' that you can do daily press releases about, selling your own branded 'war on drugs,' AND STILL protect the huge loads running via the Mexican drug cartels all over Texas into the US in order to keep the bribes flowing and NARCO ECONOMY pumping?
BUST THE USERS.
Set up a retailer as a narc and bust the little guys buying personal stash. Now to the non-user, this is the worst possible scenario for the community, as it destroys lives for everybody: addiction leads to theft and violence, loss of productivity, emotional destruction, sex crimes and more.
It also leads to the creation of the NARCO ECONOMY where the entire area is dependent on the massive flow of drugs and people; where vehicles, stash houses, private airlines and airports, tow trucks and tire shops, fencing companies, semi truck drivers, GPS tracker reps, welders, vehicle modification garages, cattle trailers, box trailers, and more, are necessities on the Cartel side. They pay CASH for services rendered, that is not reported to the IRS.
And it makes the Mexican cartel heads kinda the 'Godfather' of the area. The can make and break companies, industries, especially after they get their relatives and other Cartel operatives in the local banks, art scene, real estate sales, county offices, and positions of trust in law enforcement HIDTA funded MJTF operations that provide insider information re: ongoing investigations and actions.
The Cartels are also able to buy politicians at the local, county, and state level; here in Texas all you have to do is look at the open borders crowd in our state capitol building and see what committees they are on to understand how Mexican drug cartels OWN THEM.
So in order to achieve their goals, they set up the users for arrest.
Here is just ONE LITTLE PUKE in Texas that is a narc, selling drugs to users for the cops and cartels, in order to bust them, and keep the arrests up. There are hundreds of them here.
Makes the Sheriff's farts smell great; convinces the community he has 'taken a hard line on drugs.'
Makes the people drop their guard a bit, as the Sheriff's 'got this.'
Makes the (dirty) state and federal oversight agencies look good when they overlook the obvious.
Makes the Mexican drug cartels very very happy – and they in turn give the Sheriff and his crew 'mo money.'
Trickle down economics.
2003
"When informed he was actually going to be arrested, Gray began talking to Miller about drugs. He told Miller that there had been an offer made to him earlier at the Cole farm, also in Henderson County, to trade some cyclone fencing for drugs. Gray said that he did not have the drugs with him. Further, Gray told Miller that he would let him know everything he knew about drugs and volunteered to help him arrest and make cases on drug dealers operating in the county if he could be an informant."
https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/twelfth-court-of-appeals/2004/6712.html
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