Great article find.
I am not surprised since this is about the millionth example I have seen, many of the directly, of what the government considers an operational "success".
"In fiscal year 2016, Russo’s officers seized seven fentanyl packages; this year (FY 2017 had about a month left when the article was published - Grey), they’ve seized 64 so far, with another half-dozen suspected fentanyl packages in the pipeline for testing. "
Trigger warning (simple Math ahead!):
That would be some laughable shit right there if it was so wasteful and people weren't dying like crazy. Literally hundreds to thousands of packages of Fent coming in per day and these guys found an average of 1 package every 43 functional postal days in 2016, and 1 every 4.5 days in 2017.
"In Maryland, the number of overdose deaths from Fentanyl increased https://bha.health.maryland.gov/OVERDOSE_PREVENTION/Documents/Quarterly%20Drug_Alcohol_Intoxication_Report_2017_Q1%20(2).pdfin the first three months of 2017, killing 372 people."
So for every package seized by this effort this year, 21.3 people died in the state of MD alone (extrapolating from the 3 months of death stats cited to the 11 month period of 64 seizures cited). Smashing.
If I had the budget numbers and weights of those packages it would be "fun" to see the amount of cashy-money spent per Fent gram seized to achieve this feat of protection.
Keep up that YoY 1000% improvement rate in FY2018 and they might start finding a couple packages a day! That'll really put a dent in the suppliers budget eh!
Can't imagine why the War on Drugs hasn't accomplished any reduction in illicit drug supply.
FFS.
