White Boy Rick was one of the most prolific drug dealers in Detroit back in the 1980s. He ruined many, many lives.
If you are a White Boy dealing drugs in Detroit it is like having a target on you that says “ARREST ME!”
I second that sentiment. My wife worked in downtown Detroit for the second half of the 1980s and we saw what the crack epidemic did to a city that had already been in decline for 20 years. A city with a population of about 1 million (at the time) averaged 500+ murders a year.
He may well have been in a position to know of corrupt police and city administrators, but only to try to save his own pathetic hide. I'd say 30 years in prison is only a small down payment on his debt to society.