RSLudlum
10-07-2008, 06:54 PM
Damn, this financial fiasco is even hitting the crack dealers business!!! I'd say drop your gold rocks n buy the white!!! :p
Crack Shortage Blamed for Violence
source with video (http://www.local12.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=09f33bc6-cd49-40ae-a0cd-8e81b5974df3)
Drug dealers and buyers face a fresh surge of violence as the supply of crack cocaine dwindles and the demand does not. We're not talking Wall Street here, just the city streets of Cincinnati, where selling rocks of crack cocaine was brisk and lucrative business. Now, it's a more deadly business than ever before. There isn't enough crack cocaine to go around. And there is no bailout for this troubled industry.
In this developing story alert, Local 12's Deborah Dixon tells us this was all part of a plan.
Deb Dixon: Twelve people in two days, killed, shot or shot at, were all involved in drugs.
It's desperate times. The price of crack cocaine rock has jumped from twenty dollars to sixty. :eek:
Lt. Col. James Whalen, Cincinnati Police: "We're hearing there is not much crack out there, just like gasoline, relationships are tense between buyers and sellers."
Cincinnati Police and DEA have put away major suppliers in 18 months.
"We've banged some big dealers, supply lines are in disarray."
Rev. Peterson Mingo, Evanston: "You have drug dealers robbing drug dealers, then you have people, don't, don't do drugs, robbing this person, selling it to another person."
Reverend Peterson Mingo hears it, too. The shortage of crack, the cause of recent violence, including Tuesday's murder here in Evanston.
"Competition, people trying to get drugs to satisfy customers."
That same day, here in Corryville, police say two men looking for drugs pulled up to a dealer.
"Police say dealer tried to sell them phony drugs, they wouldn't buy, disagreement led to murder."
Reverend Damon Lynch Junior says the cause of the violence doesn't matter.
Rev. Damon Lynch Jr., Calls for Church Response: "The church is conspicuously absent on the streets. That's a problem. YOU EXPECT THEM TO COME TO YOU. That's not going to happen."
Church leaders meet tomorrow to talk about going to the streets, offering young people a spiritual way out. For the desperate drug dealer, it could be a bailout package.
Deborah Dixon, Local12.
Crack Shortage Blamed for Violence
source with video (http://www.local12.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=09f33bc6-cd49-40ae-a0cd-8e81b5974df3)
Drug dealers and buyers face a fresh surge of violence as the supply of crack cocaine dwindles and the demand does not. We're not talking Wall Street here, just the city streets of Cincinnati, where selling rocks of crack cocaine was brisk and lucrative business. Now, it's a more deadly business than ever before. There isn't enough crack cocaine to go around. And there is no bailout for this troubled industry.
In this developing story alert, Local 12's Deborah Dixon tells us this was all part of a plan.
Deb Dixon: Twelve people in two days, killed, shot or shot at, were all involved in drugs.
It's desperate times. The price of crack cocaine rock has jumped from twenty dollars to sixty. :eek:
Lt. Col. James Whalen, Cincinnati Police: "We're hearing there is not much crack out there, just like gasoline, relationships are tense between buyers and sellers."
Cincinnati Police and DEA have put away major suppliers in 18 months.
"We've banged some big dealers, supply lines are in disarray."
Rev. Peterson Mingo, Evanston: "You have drug dealers robbing drug dealers, then you have people, don't, don't do drugs, robbing this person, selling it to another person."
Reverend Peterson Mingo hears it, too. The shortage of crack, the cause of recent violence, including Tuesday's murder here in Evanston.
"Competition, people trying to get drugs to satisfy customers."
That same day, here in Corryville, police say two men looking for drugs pulled up to a dealer.
"Police say dealer tried to sell them phony drugs, they wouldn't buy, disagreement led to murder."
Reverend Damon Lynch Junior says the cause of the violence doesn't matter.
Rev. Damon Lynch Jr., Calls for Church Response: "The church is conspicuously absent on the streets. That's a problem. YOU EXPECT THEM TO COME TO YOU. That's not going to happen."
Church leaders meet tomorrow to talk about going to the streets, offering young people a spiritual way out. For the desperate drug dealer, it could be a bailout package.
Deborah Dixon, Local12.