The Wire is one of my favorite shows, and a, at least i saw the first couple of seasons. The police do want to catch the drug dealers, but they also profit from the drug dealers being out there as a source of reason for them to exist. At least they struggle with it, though, i think sometimes it's not a ye esant, it sees. It's hard to measure and hard to put th exations, is part of it when we mentioned fiction earlyer this week.
Economist and author Gary Shiffman of Georgetown University talks about his book, The Economics of Violence, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Shiffman argues that we should view terrorism, insurgency, and crime as being less about ideology and more about personal expression and entrepreneurship. He argues that approaching these problems as economists gives us better tools for fighting them.