Thread 509756693

Back in the 1920/1930's the alcohol prohibition, also known as the war on alcohol was a thing, we had police cracking down on any businesses and people who sold or produced or possessed alcohol, and no one really ever fought back.

Nowadays, we still have a prohibition, but the alcohol is cocaine, and yet, police are UNABLE to crack down on cartels like they were on people during the prohibition era.

What changed, are Mexicans just that good at waging war against police, are they better at fighting, is the cocaine more valuable, what changed, why did the police NOT struggle back then, but ARE struggling now?

>>509756693 (OP)
Most law enforcement agencies in America have limited jurisdiction internationally.
And the prohibition of alcohol is widely regarded as being a near total failure; it led to the creation of criminal cartels just as the prohibition of other drugs did, made a lot of very evil people very rich, and generally didn't stop people from drinking.

>>509757205
I imagine it's not just American police fighting against the cartels, I'm not too sure, but I suspect that it was and mostly always has been a global interpol level effort against drugs in general, in other words the war on drugs was a global effort rather than being an exclusively American event.

I wonder what the government would do differently today with the technology and lessons learned if it absolutely had to do another alcohol prohibition.

>>509758533
I'm sure it's racist or whatever to say so but police in many other countries are much less effectual, in part because they're easier to bribe.
As for lessons learned I'd say the most significant one has been that prohibition is a terrible idea all around, although that's rarely applied to drugs besides alcohol, partly I'm sure because a lot of people would lose their jobs if a lot of now illegal drugs became legal, not to mention cartels being forced to compete in an open market.