Black men have long been used as cannon fodder by international criminal cartels. CRE explained at an illicit trade in tobacco conference last year that it doesn’t matter whether it’s narcotics or illicit tobacco products that are being trafficked, “there is a sharp racial divergence between the people who commit substance-related crimes” and those who are punished for it while the drug cartels and other terrorist groups that orchestrate the dealing earn billions of illegal dollars from seemingly petty crimes.
The way we can prevent yet more exploitation of American cities by transnational criminal organizations is to refuse to buy illicit tobacco and other contraband goods and to support our local, state and federal law enforcement officers in their difficult and dangerous work of protecting public safety.
