High level drug dealers are ready to kill anyone, LEOs, people who take their drugs, absolutely anyone who gets in their way in order to make money.
They are worse than enemy ombatants.
I have met former NVA and VC who fought against me in RVN. They were fighting for a cause they believed to be right and just.
So did we.
Knowing some of them now, older, mellowed and wiser, I can tell you most are now men of honor. They deserved the Geneva protections.
Drug dealers do not.
When the drug alcohol was illegal, its dealers were ready to kill anyone.