its near end financial year so cops are trying to use up their budget -plus they are always harsh in port areas as there is so much being brought in..
yes there is more surveillance but it doesn’t stop the demand for drugs, and I also suspect that some party drug traffic and use (particularly dance music events in inner city/low income areas) is actually “tolerated” and the cops could actually go in a lot harsher if they (or the government) wanted to..
but if they really dent drug supplies its possible the streets of Britain might erupt into rioting, drugs do actually calm down an increasingly angry, divided and dissatisfied population..
I think drugs weren’t that easy to get in this country until the mid to late 1980s – and before then there were a lot of riots in the UK – not the one or two days of fighting but whole weeks of rioting with loads of cars/buildings burned.
incidentally my extended family come from a country where there is the death penalty for drugs posession or trafficking and loads of people are hanged every year – yet there is still a growing drugs culture in this country – thats how strong the desire is. Of course the stakes are higher and there are a lot more firearms used by both dealers and cops…
