
“The refrain that Mexican drug cartels ‘now maintain a presence in over 1,000 cities’ has been widely heard ever since the claim was first made in a 2011 report by the now defunct National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC). But the Washington Post reported Sunday that it isn’t true. The figure is ‘misleading at best,’ law enforcement sources and drug policy analysts told the Post. The number was arrived by asking law enforcement agencies to self-report and not based on documented criminal cases involving Mexico’s drug trafficking organizations, the so-called cartels.”
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/aug/26/mexican_cartels_not_over_1000_us
Related posts:
Terrorists win: European Union to crack down on Bitcoin post Paris
Bitcoin Auction Site Puts Itself Up for Sale After Theft of 15 Bitcoins
Privacy at Risk: Global Gold Storage Firms Get Rid of US Citizens
Croatian central bank establishes that Bitcoin is legal in Croatia
Infant recovers from brain tumor after treatment with cannabis oil
Subprime lending execs back in business five years after crash
Can the Feds Spend $3.3M in Seized Digital Currency?
Reality Check: More Americans "Rethinking" 9/11?
Privacy group to file Supreme Court petition against NSA surveillance program
Sweden’s War on Cash Runs Into a Wall–and a Heroic Bank
Veteran Faces Jail Time For Using Marijuana As Treatment For PTSD
The Millions Killed in America’s Post-9/11 Wars – Part One: Iraq
Vladimir Putin: The US Administration is Lying Shamelessly about Syria
Small Businesses Are Trapped by ObamaCare
How to Profit From Stealth Inflation