Heroin Giveaway Day Somehow Goes Bad

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Marketing gone wrong:
Police had calls for more than a half dozen victims of what appears to be bad heroin.

Patrick Kehoe, District 4 fire chief, said there were multiple victims who were found unconscious and unresponsive.

..."What gangs do is that they'll have freebie days, where they'll pass out drugs for free," said Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline. "They're trying to intice new customers and they're trying to intice customers away from other drug spots. So, they'll pass out drugs for free. Hopefully, you'll like it and you'll be back tomorrow to pay for it."
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I feel so sorry for the victims. Who would've thought heroin could be so dangerous? Its quite baffling.
 
Police handed out fliers in the area, asking people to use their heads, not to accept the bad narcotics and to contact police with any information they can offer.
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Well, that obviously failed. Any other bright ideas?
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
Well, that obviously failed. Any other bright ideas?
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If someone comes to the police and says, "Bob sold me smack, which nearly killed me. Here is a sample," does that person get busted by the cops? If so, would it be a good idea to maybe ease up on people willing to provide information to the cops?

..or is that "soft on crime" thinking?
 
ImaginalDisc said:
If someone comes to the police and says, "Bob sold me smack, which nearly killed me. Here is a sample," does that person get busted by the cops? If so, would it be a good idea to maybe ease up on people willing to provide information to the cops?

..or is that "soft on crime" thinking?
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Actually, I believe light penalties or amnesty in exchange for information or cooperation leading to the bust of a bigger fish, is standard practice in the US.
 
ImaginalDisc said:
If someone comes to the police and says, "Bob sold me smack, which nearly killed me. Here is a sample," does that person get busted by the cops? If so, would it be a good idea to maybe ease up on people willing to provide information to the cops?

..or is that "soft on crime" thinking?
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That is soft on crime thinking. :p

I bet you voted for Kerry.
 
..."What gangs do is that they'll have freebie days, where they'll pass out drugs for free," said Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline. "They're trying to intice new customers and they're trying to intice customers away from other drug spots. So, they'll pass out drugs for free. Hopefully, you'll like it and you'll be back tomorrow to pay for it."
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This is called getting what you pay for.

And it's spelled "entice," NBC5...
 
Whoah.

They were GIVING away drugs on a streetcorner and the cops were in the dark? I smell something fishy...
 
The Old Dope Peddler - by Tom Lehrer
He gives the kids free samples,
Because he knows full well
That today's young innocent faces
Will be tomorrow's clientele.
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Hey, this could be like that Tylenol case years back. Somebody tampering with heroin to kill off addicts. We need to get some kind of tamperproof protection on baggies, man.
 
Just because it was given for free wouldn't make me a heroin addict. I'm not that gullible when it comes to marketing.

However if there was some sort of advertisement featuring near-naked women smiling and doing heroin, well that would be a different story. THAT is effective marketing!
 
Something is pretty silly about this whole thing. Drug dealers giving away free samples is basically an urban legend. The reasons why it's not economically feasible to take that approach are legion...

1. for starters, there's no guarantee that an addict would come to YOU to get their supply

2. addicts are notoriously unreliable and can overdose or get arrested at any time

3. the stuff is damn expensive and you can't just blow thousands of dollars of dope on the off chance that you might gain some more customers

4. most good drug dealers don't want more customers, they want a small tight knit group of customers they can trust who buy increasingly large amounts. attempting to get a wide array of customers is suicidal in the drug trade

5. if you gave away free heroin the junkies would get wind of it and positively drain you dry

This is just an example of a bogus stereotype being used by the police to help paint their victims as some kind of evil monsters praying on innocent people.

I say legalize it all--cocaine, heroin, marijuana, you name it. But that's just me.
 
Unalienable said:
Something is pretty silly about this whole thing. Drug dealers giving away free samples is basically an urban legend. The reasons why it's not economically feasible to take that approach are legion...

1. for starters, there's no guarantee that an addict would come to YOU to get their supply

2. addicts are notoriously unreliable and can overdose or get arrested at any time

3. the stuff is damn expensive and you can't just blow thousands of dollars of dope on the off chance that you might gain some more customers

4. most good drug dealers don't want more customers, they want a small tight knit group of customers they can trust who buy increasingly large amounts. attempting to get a wide array of customers is suicidal in the drug trade

5. if you gave away free heroin the junkies would get wind of it and positively drain you dry

This is just an example of a bogus stereotype being used by the police to help paint their victims as some kind of evil monsters praying on innocent people.

I say legalize it all--cocaine, heroin, marijuana, you name it. But that's just me.
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The giveaway was well-documented at the time. News crews were interviewing addicts who said the same thing - they were giving it away. And in that part of town the drug trade is controlled by the gangs, and that particular gang has a large territory. So the odds are very good that a new addict will buy their heroin from the same gang (if not the same dealer) that gave it away, since most of the giveaways were to people in that neighborhood.
 
The dealers might try the "buy 4 and get the 5th packet free" approach. Another tested
way is the sweepstakes deal or the infocommercial. Seems like I always miss the deals!
 
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