04-16-2022, 06:42 AM
Back in the days when I drove a taxi cab in OKC at night, I saw an awful lot of drug trafficking. This was right after I left the Army as a Military Policeman, so I had an elevated awareness of some aspects of this stuff (mid-1990s). It struck me then that if the drug trade in OKC were to ever act like a business, the police would never have a chance against the thugs. The upper levels of the trade are run that way now, but it never seems to have seeped down to the street level. Still, the move to decriminalize or legalize a lot of stuff around these parts is actually supported by the police because it has gotten so totally unmanageable. They now focus more effort on the violence that attaches to the trade.