Attempt to shame suburban drug users (NJ)

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Cops bust 55 in Camden drug sweeps
Sam Wood
Philadelphia Inquirer
1.24.08

In an attempt to stop suburbanites from buying illegal drugs in Camden, police last night released the names and occupations of 55 people arrested during massive drug sweeps.

Fifty-five were arrested yesterday on drug charges. Of those, more than 40 reside outside Camden. All face up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, said Chief Edward Hargis of the Camden police.

They are:

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I obviously didn't include the names of the suspects.


They actually published a table of the people arrested.

Here is a what it contained with a fictitious name :
Last Name, First Name DOB Age Race/Sex Town, County Occupation Employer Drug Type Bags seized Location
Tandy, Karen 1/6/1957 51 w/f Pennsgrove, Salem grade a cunt DEA heroin 1 1st and Main



I'm obviously having trouble with the formatting, but you get the idea.


Most of the people were unemployed and got caught with 1 or so bags. One guy got caught with 12 bags of dope, and another guy got caught with 25 bags of crack.
 
how is this news? drug arrests are published in my
local newspaper all the time.
 
jorder1010 said:
how is this news? drug arrests are published in my
local newspaper all the time.
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This was done specifically as a means to deter use. It's not done here, at least not in the city.


Wet is PCP. But, if you ask anyone in the media or even most cops, they'll say it's formaldahyde.
 
So your saying that there is a law in Camden/NJ that actually allows this? I thought such information was protected.
 
skoat said:
So your saying that there is a law in Camden/NJ that actually allows this? I thought such information was protected.
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civil liberties are no object in the war on drugs, welcome to america biatch!
 
skoat said:
So your saying that there is a law in Camden/NJ that actually allows this? I thought such information was protected.
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No way. Arrest records and court proceedings are all public. Haven't you ever read a newspaper or watched the news? They talk about people arrested and convicted all the time.

I have seen them do this other places with johns that get caught with hookers. I bet this will be a deterrent to at least some suburban people that have families and jobs. Now that everybody might find out that Bob is smoking crack or shooting heroin when wifey is out of town, Bob might think twice about buying some dope.

Look at all the unemployed people. Are drug users just slackers or do you think all of those people lied to the cops so their job or business wasn't published? Hmmmm...

Edit: Let's not mention that. I don't want to give people any ideas. -phrozen

Lastly, why would they list wet? How many people reading the paper are going to know what wet is? Why not say PCP?
 
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bulldog8b said:
No way. Arrest records and court proceedings are all public. Haven't you ever read a newspaper or watched the news? They talk about people arrested and convicted all the time.

I have seen them do this other places with johns that get caught with hookers. I bet this will be a deterrent to at least some suburban people that have families and jobs. Now that everybody might find out that Bob is smoking crack or shooting heroin when wifey is out of town, Bob might think twice about buying some dope.

Look at all the unemployed people. Are drug users just slackers or do you think all of those people lied to the cops so their job or business wasn't published? Hmmmm...

Edit: Let's not mention that. I don't want to give people any ideas. -phrozen

Lastly, why would they list wet? How many people reading the paper are going to know what wet is? Why not say PCP?
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Based on how much they were buying, it's safe to assume that they busted mostly hardcore addicts. Most tend to be unemployed, just scraping shit together to get their daily fix.

Or, the amounts could be due to how the operation was conducted. I'm guessing they had undercover cops pose as drug dealers. Of course the smart users wouldn't be familiar with them, so they'd only buy 1 or so bags just to test out the quality, etc.
 
phrozen said:
Based on how much they were buying, it's safe to assume that they busted mostly hardcore addicts. Most tend to be unemployed, just scraping shit together to get their daily fix.

Or, the amounts could be due to how the operation was conducted. I'm guessing they had undercover cops pose as drug dealers. Of course the smart users wouldn't be familiar with them, so they'd only buy 1 or so bags just to test out the quality, etc.
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I didn't really think about it until now, but you guys on the east coast get always get .1g bags, right? And if you want a gram you buy 10 bags. Out here, I'll get just 1 balloon, but it will be .5g or 1 gram or whatever. So if they did that out here, most people would only have 1 bag, but the amounts would vary.

So you are probably right Phrozen, most of the people busted were only spending $10 or $20.
 
No, buying weight is extremely uncommon. If anyone is buying weight, it's not on the street. What we're talking about here are $10 dollar stamps, which weigh 100mgs on average. They don't package heroin on the street in any other way besides glassine bags. (see my avatar)
 
In the midwest buying grams is quite commong and even up to an ounce. But in the southeast I have always seen the heroin in glassines even if someone picks up 30 bundles at once, all glassines... never just bagged up grams.
 
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Right. Grams are also common in the W and SW, where mostly tar is sold.

But, this story is from Camden, which is across the bridge from Philly. Weight isn't common at all there.
 
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