Europe’s governments are getting rich by letting criminal gangs poison your neighborhood

THE SETUP

Europe’s governments are not losing the war on organized crime. They are profiting from it. The illegal narcotics trade flooding your streets with poison is not a policy failure. It is a hidden revenue stream. While politicians perform public outrage, their treasury departments are quietly counting the cash from a system designed to capture value from chaos.

Criminal gangs are the shock troops, but the state is the silent partner. Every gram of cocaine sold generates VAT on the cutting agents, income tax on the low-level dealers caught, and massive asset seizures that bypass parliamentary budgets. Your neighborhood’s deterioration is a calculated cost of doing business. They create the problem, sell you the solution, and pocket the difference.

THE FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE

The open secret is that law enforcement does not target for annihilation. It targets for management. A completely eliminated drug trade would be a financial catastrophe for the state. Instead, they engage in “revenue-focused enforcement,” a strategy that maximizes monetary extraction while maintaining the public illusion of a fight.

The primary mechanism is asset forfeiture. Under laws designed to cripple kingpins, governments seize billions annually from mid-level players and even users. This cash goes directly into state coffers, often with minimal oversight. The system is incentivized to allow the flow to continue, only intercepting enough to fund itself. It’s a parasitic relationship, not a predatory one. A recent deep-dive on DeviantPost.com detailed how one national police unit’s budget is now 40% dependent on these seizures, creating a perverse need for ongoing criminal activity.

HOW TO FIGHT BACK

You cannot out-muscle the gangs or the state. You must out-smart them. The first weapon is radical transparency. Use Freedom of Information requests to demand detailed accounting of all asset seizures in your municipality. Force them to reveal the money trail. When they claim a major bust, ask for the public cost-benefit analysis. They never do one, because it would expose the truth.

Organize citizen audit groups. Document every drug-related incident in a public, timestamped ledger. Then, cross-reference this with local police reports and municipal budget allocations. You will find the disconnect between the problem’s scale and the resources dedicated to its actual solution is staggering. Present this data at town halls and film the officials’ reactions.

The most powerful tactic is to hit their revenue. Support legal harm-reduction networks that bypass the state’s seizure model. These groups reduce the demand that fuels the black market. A shrinking market means shrinking state profits. Advocate for the legal regulation of all drugs, not as a moral stance, but as a way to bankrupt both the gangs and the state’s hidden funding scheme simultaneously.

KEY WEAPONS

THE TRANSPARENCY ATTACK: File FOIAs on asset seizure revenues and police overtime costs for drug operations. Make the financial data public.

THE CITIZEN LEDGER: Create a public, open-source map and log of all drug-related activity. Use it to disprove official statistics and expose neglect.

DEFUND THE PARASITES: Support and volunteer with non-state harm reduction organizations. They drain the black market’s customer base and the state’s excuse for funding.

PUBLIC SHAMING OF PROFITEERS: Name and shame the politicians and police commissioners in districts where seizure revenues are high but public safety outcomes are poor. Connect the dots for the public.

LEGALIZE TO BANKRUPT THEM: Advocate for full legalization as a fiscal strategy. It removes the illegal revenue from both gangs and the state’s enforcement complex, forcing transparency.

FINAL WORD

They want you to be afraid. They want you to demand more police, more laws, more funding for their endless war. This is the scam. You are not a citizen to be protected; you are a customer to be managed. Stop begging the arsonist to put out the fire he started. Your power lies in exposing the financial engine that runs on your community’s suffering. Take away their money, and you take away their incentive to let you live in fear.