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"With Crystal Shield, nationwide so far, there have been 1,800 arrests, 28,500 pounds of meth seized, that’s the equivalent of 65 million doses, and $43 million seized. Here in Arizona, there have been 3,900 pounds of methamphetamine seized, which is 8.8 million doses.

Now, it’s important to understand that the results of Crystal Shield are over and above, and augment, what I call the "baseline enforcement effort" that’s directed against methamphetamine by the DEA. So, for example, in 2019, the overall effort against methamphetamine by the DEA had resulted in 100,000 pounds of methamphetamine seized and 11,000 defendants charged.

What’s different about Crystal Shield is that it is over and above that, and is also targeting, specifically, the large hubs — city hubs — that are the core of the distribution in the United States. It’s designed to seize it and dismantle the organizations that are involved in its’ distribution before it gets into packages and is distributed."

Note sure if it has been you or someone else, but I’ve come to realize that there is something going on with the DOJ, good news...

I’ve started to follow justice.gov daily

You probably saw the story about the NFL player too huh? Wow.

I can only hope that a DOJ action on some rogue politicians is in the works.

Thanks for all you do Ransom.

But today I want to talk about another serious challenge to public safety, one that is closely associated with violence, and that is the surging of trafficking in methamphetamine. Now we’ve all heard about the opioid crisis and that certainly has been, and remains, a crisis for our country. We’ve heard about all of the overdoses. Now, for the first three years of this administration, we had been able to, initially, flatten the curve, and then even reduce opioid overdoses, and most of this has come by substantial progress in the abuse of prescription drugs, lawful prescription drugs. But unfortunately, this year, and this is perhaps associated with COVID in some way, we’ve seen an increase in opioid overdoses. Some of this has been fueled, if not most of it, by a shift to synthetic opioids, principally fentanyl, which is a very deadly drug. Nevertheless, and that remains a challenge for us to go after that fentanyl, which, many of you may know, the precursors largely come from China, go into Mexico, and Mexico manufactures it and sends it – the cartels – send it up into the United States.

WHO are the big manufacturers? HOW are they not being IDENTIFIED and HELD RESONSIBLE? With INTEL agencies up the WAZOO and surveillance systems better than ever...we seem to be horribly lacking in going after the BIGS responsible.

Where are the FBI's 5 most wanted in the world for each calamity...from CoVid & fentanyl to Meth?

"since we started it on July 22nd – we’ve had 2,500 arrests"
"in 2019...11,000 defendants charged"

Impressive? NOT!

Today we have children being arrested and charged with going to school, or pastors arrested for preaching in churches.

So, how many of those arrested or charged were actually convicted in a trial and sentenced to more than 2 years in prison? How many convictions were overturned or sentence reduced on appeal? How many are still in prison? How many have been released and arrested or charged a second (or third) time?

Let's see those numbers.

This is a serious problem. Meth is coming back in a big way, a lot of it driven by the despair and isolation and family collapse brought on by the shutdown.

Opioids of course are still a problem, which has only gotten worse because of the shutdown.