How to Make Money Selling Drugs Page #8

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Barry Cooper's a guy you can

call if cops plant drugs on you.

Even if you've never

dealt drugs in your life.

My granddad told me

a long time ago,

tough times don't build character.

Tough times show character.

he called us and he said,

"Tell you what I think happened.

"They made a mistake in identity."

Confidential informants ended up

planting drugs on the wrong person.

It struck me later on

that evening,

it just kinda, you know,

my eyes popped open, like,

"Wait a minute. How do you

plant drugs on the right person?"

and informant

was instructed by police

to plant a bag of meth

in his daughter's car.

But unfortunately,

the information was wrong,

Yolanda Madden was a working, single

mother of two at the time of her arrest.

So Raymond flew to East

Texas and met with me.

And I told him how we could catch those

officers that planted the drugs on Yolanda.

Because some of them

were my ex-partners.

Barry planted two Christmas trees

under some grow lamps.

Then, Odessa cops

received an anonymous tip

that a major drug operation

was under way.

As Barry knew they would,

the police broke a number of laws

leading up to an illegal invasion

and search of his house.

Barry proved that Odessa cops

routinely break the law,

as standard operating procedure

in fighting the drug war.

Get these cameras ready.

Hey, I'm Barry Cooper

with KopBusters!

Why are you in my house?

I'm busy making sure these Odessa

cops quit planting drugs on people.

We're not giving nobody no hassle.

You did too. Y'all

planted drugs on Yolanda

and she's in prison because of it.

That's giving people a hassle.

You guys are wrong on this one

and you know it. You got burnt.

He got a media event, and

that thing went national.

In 2008, ex-drug officer Barry

Cooper set up Odessa police

to bring attention

to Madden's case.

It was a success.

And to prove we were right, the judge let her go.

She got out of prison.

Painful memories that melt away

as Yolanda Madden

emerges a free woman.

I went to prison a single

mom of two kids, 16 and 11.

My son is 20 and married.

And of course my daughter is,

she's getting ready to be 16.

And I'm talking to this

young woman, you know,

that was just a child when I left.

So, I mean, I miss the

years, you know. But...

I've got lots of ways

to sting cops.

It just takes money.

If you've come this far, you've learned

to beat cases and outsmart the law,

while stacking up hundreds of

millions of dollars in cash.

This concludes chapter six,

How to Be a Kingpin.

You're almost ready for the top

level, Running a Drug Cartel.

But before we go overseas

there's one more way to make

money in the game here at home,

even more than kingpins.

This is the secret level.

For all you government

officials out there,

we're going to teach you

how to expand your power,

and take out political opponents.

All you need is a drug war.

Drugs used to be legal.

Heroin, cocaine, everything.

Until about 100 years ago, when America

appointed its first drug czar,

a man named Harry Anslinger.

In his report to the U.S. Senate,

Anslinger detailed the reasons

drugs must be outlawed.

This is what he said.

"There are 100,000

marijuana smokers in the U.S.,

"and most are Negroes,

Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers.

"Their satanic music, jazz and swing,

result from marijuana use.

"It causes white women to seek sexual relations

with Negroes, entertainers and others."

Anslinger's popularity

soared with voters,

and lawmakers

began outlawing drugs.

Then the evangelical movement inspired

Congress to ban alcohol as well.

Gangsterism was a natural sequel

and battles for exclusive

territories erupted with a violence

unparalleled in the history

of law enforcement.

Guys like Al Capone were

suddenly making big bucks.

The black market exploded with such

violence that public opinion turned

and Roosevelt

ended alcohol prohibition,

crushing the burgeoning industry.

But Harry Anslinger didn't

stop pushing drug prohibition.

In the 1960s, he took his case all

the way to the United Nations,

and lobbied the whole world to adopt the U.S.

policy of outlawing drugs.

Richard Nixon would pick up

where Anslinger left off.

America's public enemy number one

in the United States is drug abuse.

While publicly claiming to

address addiction and violence,

Nixon used drug policy as a weapon

to move against those he thought

of as his political enemies.

To fight and defeat this enemy,

it is necessary to wage

a new, all-out offensive.

President Nixon created the Drug

Enforcement Administration,

with an annual budget of $65 million,

and started the war on drugs.

If you are a governor, mayor, police

chief, or any public official,

an enormous amount of money was suddenly

available from the federal government.

All you had to do

was enlist in the drug war.

All of us in law enforcement,

we're soldiers.

We developed the cases, we got the

informants, we did the search warrants,

we did the wire taps, but we

didn't take the money out of it.

So what happened?

All the wonderful little entrepreneurs said,

"Now it's my time."

Twelve years later,

the federal drug war budget

had grown to over

$1.5 billion a year.

And the Reagan administration

stepped up the rhetoric.

For the sake of our children,

I implore each of you,

to be unyielding and inflexible

in your opposition to drugs.

Say yes to your life.

And when it comes to drugs,

just say no.

"Just say no" is sort of a fraud,

it's one America

talking to the other

not even knowing how the

other half has to live.

David Simon is the creator of the

critically acclaimed series The Wire.

When you're at war,

you need a f***ing enemy.

And pretty soon damn near everybody on

every corner is your f***in' enemy.

David based the characters

in his show

on the real world events

he observed

during his many years as

a Baltimore police reporter.

Yeah, we were saying "just say no"

to involving yourself

in the drug trade.

It was like telling people in a factory town,

"Don't go to work for steel."

Or telling people in Detroit,

"Don't go to work for GM."

"Just say no" in West Baltimore

is telling somebody,

"Don't go work for the only factory

that is hiring in your neighborhood."

And the country is telling you implicitly,

"We don't need you."

You're a human being

without purpose.

And that's 10, to 15, to 20% of

our population at this point.

You got to realize we ain't got

no jobs around here or nothin'.

You know, so, every time we try

to make a little somethin'

to get on our feet, to try

and help to feed our family,

they come kicking the doors in and

knocking, knocking us back down again.

Even as you fall into the corner

culture and ruin your life,

um, you're granted meaning.

You're granted a purpose.

You're gonna go out and you're

going to sell this G-pack today

And you're going to bring that

money home to your people.

So "just say no" was a problem.

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