Why are illegal drug-related street deals associated with violent acts like murder/shootings.
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Let’s think about this by the inverse:
The only reason *legal* deals are *not* strongly associated with murders and shootings is because law and public scrutiny make it inconvenient to openly and routinely use these to intimidate business “partners” (who are really more like cattle than they are like ranchers.)
In some countries like China or Mexico, the appropriate laws are much looser either on paper or in enforcement, so even these “legal” deals are considerably more dangerous than in the US or UK. You know the Godfather and all those other romantic movies about “the mafia” who are just accepted as a regular part of society? Once upon a time the real US wasn’t too different from that, and there are still some places with cartels or other equivalent “powers that be”.
To some extent, contraband is contraband and the same smugglers and crime lords are interested in it as long as the cost warrants the risk. Controlled substances are incredibly easy to conceal and move compared to stolen paintings or illegal firearms, and they can be ludicrously expensive, so they’re a chief temptation for the kind of people who, as the saying goes, “would sell their own mother for a nickel”.
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