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RE: I Started Robbing Drug Dealers When I was 15 -
Tell many, many more stories. You have a knack for it and deserve to be rewarded for the little revelations in your posts..
The way it was set up was the block had a lieutenant that would oversee the shift, there were four dealers, each dealer had three runners, one runner for the cars, one for the foot traffic and one to take the money to the lieutenant and get the re up when you ran out.
For some reason, the infrastructure of this is interesting as hell to me.
The guy who set it up was actually really intelligent, when the demand peaked he restructured the way the whole block ran, organized it just like a business, 3 shifts a day, dealers were paid daily and runners were paid $1000 - $1500 on a weekly basis. It was like he was bringing real jobs into the neighborhood.
I think this is a root cause of a lot of the tension between law enforcement and inner cities... its a literal threat to their livelihood, legalities be damned. That makes sense to me.
I would be curious to see what happens to these infrastructures in places where marijuana has been legalized or decriminalized.
You should write a post proposing taking a trip into some bigger cities like Denver or Seattle to see if you can learn about the infrastructure before and after the legalization issue. That would be very interesting to see.