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Arrests in drug operation

Police say a six-month undercover operation targeting gang and drug crimes in San Diego has ended with the arrests of more than 90 people — half of them documented gang members — and led to the closure of a day-care center.

Police Capt. Jim Collins says Operation Red Sky culminated Monday with the arrest of 14 of the top gang leaders.

Collins say the Little Buckaroos day-care center in San Ysidro was closed after two people related to the center’s owner were arrested on suspicion of buying narcotics in or near the facility.

Officers seized 19 firearms, a variety of drugs, including 10 pounds of marijuana, more than 3 pounds of crack cocaine, 18 vials of PCP and more than $60,000.

http://www.santaynezvalleyjournal.com/archive/7/40/5235/

Officers seized 19 firearms, a variety of drugs, including 10 pounds of marijuana, more than 3 pounds of crack cocaine, 18 vials of PCP and more than $60,000.

Oh wow, those figures sound so impressive. I'm sure that victory in the glorious War on Drugs is just around the corner. /sarcasm

Actually your body counts don't impress me. Your statistics mask the reality of the Drug War's inability to affect the price or availability of cannabis. Such propaganda reminds one of discredited Vietnam War era body counts being used to fool the public into thinking success was a probable outcome:

Since the goal of the United States in the Vietnam War was not to conquer North Vietnam but rather to ensure the survival of the South Vietnamese government, measuring progress was difficult. All the contested territory was theoretically "held" already. Instead, the U.S. army used body counts to show that the U.S. was winning the war. The Army's theory was that eventually, the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army would lose due to attrition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_count#Vietnam_War