Why are illegal drug-related street deals associated with violent acts like murder/shootings.
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When you are doing some illegal as your business you lose the ability to rely on the system of laws to keep the landscape of customers, competitors, suppliers and so on conforming to normal social expectations.
So…the escalation to violence is easy to see happening. If I know that you can’t call the cops on me coming and stealing your drugs because getting caught having the drugs is a big problem for you then I know that I can “steal” with impunity. Take this idea and extrapolate it and the person willing to be more violent can do what they want to the person unwilling to be violent, within the context of whatever illegal business is going on.
so…a business might defend it’s territory and market through fostering partnerships with retailers, through reducing prices. Those are _legal_, and they can’t go up to store owners and say “sell my product and not my competitors” with a gun to their face because the store owner who runs a legit business has the entire police force at their disposal to stop that. If that retailer is a drug dealer, they can’t make that call.
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