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Intro Econ 3: Profit & Cocaine

Planet Money Summer School

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Drug Money - How Much of It Is Going to Increase Crime?

Rick's drug money would find its way into all sorts of other illicit activities in the neighborhood. He had a crew of anywhere from 30 to forty guys that y too from what was going on. How many guns did your operations have? Who knows. We brought guns regularly. Anybody e can get killed at any time. Most people couldn't do what i did. They couldn't walk around south central los angeles in the middle of a hoover crip gang or the swins and live the way i live, you know, free and open.

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