> In reality, "took down * drug runners who spent * years evading us and supplying * with amount of drugs over * years" looks really good on someone's CV
What I found most interesting was the disconnect between the reality of the drug operations, and the information the DEA had. The DEA thought a $2M transaction was huge and rare. The drug dealers were doing that amount regularly.
In the end, the only way the DEA got inside the organization was that someone talked. If everyone had kept quiet, the DEA would still have no idea about the scale of the operation.
What I found most interesting was the disconnect between the reality of the drug operations, and the information the DEA had. The DEA thought a $2M transaction was huge and rare. The drug dealers were doing that amount regularly.
In the end, the only way the DEA got inside the organization was that someone talked. If everyone had kept quiet, the DEA would still have no idea about the scale of the operation.