Most people have heard of the Drug Enforcement Agency or DEA in now you can even watch them in a reality TV dating show on the USA channel entitled DEA. Which shows them investigating drug dealers usually in big cities and then busting them and trying to get them to turn on their suppliers. They use informants or CI's (confidential informants) as they call them on this on the show to get breaking information on who's got what and where. Then they usefully and the show big drug bust with guns in doors being knocked down and so on. It makes the DEA look semi-glamorous and holds them in the spotlight of being a super efficient government agency, but are they really as effective as they seem and claim to be?

Well, common sense applies here and so do the laws of supply and demand in economics. In economics 101 or whatever the course number may be in the various state and private institutions that teach it - they teach that the US is a market driven economy and the price and quantity have an inverse relationship. Basically the more there is of supply of something, the lower the price is and vice versa. Well if the DEA and other branches of government that try to stop the drug trade and drug trafficking were effective than the price to buy these drugs would soon become astronomical and the demand would slack off.

The problem is that the price hasn't gone up one bit since the introduction of the DEA, instead it has actually gone down. What this means is that the market in any state in any big city is flooded with sources and supplies of drugs from ecstasy to cocaine to heroin to methamphetamines and so on down the line. Basically what really happens is that every time the DEA busts one individual for drugs 10 more comeback on the circuit and take his place and build more avenues or drug outlets.

So basically from an economist's point of view the DEA is a complete failure. Yes, they bust a few individuals here and there and put them in jail where they meet the revolving door and come right back out again in a little bit, but it's basically become a losing battle. It may not be quite as bad as some of the extremes of what they see in Mexico where the drug cartels are so powerful that the police have little or no power and are actually in complete fear of them, but it is a kin to the problem with the border patrol and illegal aliens. There are many more of the bad guys than there are of the good guys. They have more money, more weapons, etc. and it makes it very hard for an organization like the DEA to have any substantial effect whatsoever.

The other thing going against the DEA is the fact that that's just one avenue of people bringing stuff in the country. Everybody in Washington that is anybody of importance knows without a doubt that a significant amount of the drugs in this country coming to this country every day through diplomatic immunity. What does this mean? It means that one foreign dignitaries visit our country from whatever other countries they bring with them diplomatic briefcases or pouches which are not subject to search in any way shape or form. This is supposedly because whatever they might be bringing with them could be important to their state's interest and our state's interest and shouldn't be intercepted by someone like the transit authority (another loosely effective government agency) that doesn't understand the importance of such documents or items.

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Well over the years and many foreign dignitaries have used these diplomatic pouches or briefcases for self-enrichment for themselves, their friends and their fellow politicians and brought a lot of drugs, illegal money, illegal diamonds, etc. into our country in this way. So regardless of what the DEA does they are absolutely 100% powerless against foreign dignitaries that want to misuse these diplomatic pouches and briefcases. Not only that, but if one is for dignitaries wants to sell their drugs in any way that they would like in the US the DEA can't do a damn thing about it. The foreign dignitary or dignitaries have diplomatic immunity.

That means they cannot be arrested for anything. They can drive drunk. They can kill people. They have killed people by driving drunk and they have caused serious accidents and numerous other incidents all under the auspices of diplomatic immunity. The problem here for the DEA is that if they ever do follow these drug busts up the chain well eventually they come to a politician, a foreign dignitary, a judge, prosecutor, a big law firm, a big CEO in a corporation, etc. and these people are powerful enough or have friends in places that are powerful enough that they become virtually untouchable.

These politically connected drug kingpins as you might call them as they should be referred to are the new class of the Untouchables. As long as they pad the appropriate places in other words paying off the appropriate people they can never be touched. As a matter of fact there are actually various books out there explaining this situation and actual situations in which the DEA and other similar or related government agencies have been made to turn the cheek or turn the other way and leave certain individuals and their enterprises alone.

If you want proof of this for yourself, again it's just common sense, why is it that some billion-dollar drug organizations are allowed to exist 10, 20 maybe even 30 years whereas others that are much smaller in size are routinely busted? Is it because if the DEA and other organizations pursued some of these organizations that some of their members might end up dead or fired? What amazes me is how much of this diplomatic immunity crap that goes on and how much of that money goes to terrorists and similar organizations. It's kind of like were funding our own problems.

Basically, the point is article was not to put down the DEA or its efforts in trying to curtail the entry of drugs into our country and stop or minimize its sale - I think that is a good and noble quest is most drugs and their illegal use is bad and hurts people. I just think the DEA has been assigned an impossible task and so they do the best they can in busting the little people and they leave the big fish alone. You won't see them busting a politician or a federal judge on the DEA show on the USA channel. There's a reason for that they would never do that in real life or on the show. Too much is at stake and there would be too much to lose.

I don't see how Congress, the president or anyone else can expect the DEA to end or have a big, enduring impact on the drug trade without removing diplomatic immunity from these pouches and briefcases that certain foreign dignitaries bring into our country. For instance, one briefcase may not seem like a lot, but if an individual from the Middle East tour Asia or somewhere thereabouts were to bring in a briefcase full of uncut heroin once a week that would be an awful lot of heroine that would soon be hitting our streets. Even if it was just cocaine a briefcase could easily hold 20 or more pounds of it and if they do this weekly that would be 1000 pounds or more of cocaine each year from one diplomatic pouch or briefcase.

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Now just think there are hundreds of these foreign dignitaries with diplomatic pouches and briefcases. How many of these do you think are filled with drugs and other similar illegal items? A lot. In the real world of politics it's CYA (Cover Your Ass). This means each of these foreign dignitaries is sort of like a spy in that they need to take care of themselves and their families in case they are ever considered disposable or unnecessary due to a political coup or other similar event. In other words just about every single one of them is packing something that will enrich both themselves, their families and their friends. Now how do you think the DEA can combat that? They can't and they don't.

This is why the price of drugs is not where it should be economically if the DEA were having an impact on both its price and quantity. If you took out the diplomatic bags, pouches and briefcases then you would probably almost immediately see prices skyrocket for drugs like cocaine and heroin. This would be due to the great impact in its supply. So I'm sorry to say that until this diplomatic problem is handled which I doubt it ever will be then there will never be any real impact in the drug supply here in the United States.

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