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The DEA's meth lab register lists locations that were reported to be clandestine drug laboratories based on reports by local law enforcement agencies. The labs stay on the site until local authorities contact the DEA and inform them it has been decontaminated or demolished.
In other words, these appear to be the number of labs in each county that have been identified by police investigation, but have not yet been reported as cleaned up to the DEA. A wide range of local variables in there that affect the number of active cases being worked.
Here is another site with highly detailed information. This site suggests that the number shown for Tulsa County corresponds with the total number of meth lab busts accumulated over the past 13 years.
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It's like making a list of which counties have the most barking dogs, by counting now many citations the police have issued for barking dog complaints.
It looks to me like this is a list of the counties in which the police have most diligently looked for meth labs. Which says nothing about how many meth labs are or were actually there.
An extremely faulty set of statistics, with not a word about the the methodology.
Bingo!
This is how many have been found, not how many there are.
I'd rather see a higher number if that also means a large percentage of the labs are being found. If only a small handful are found I'd have to wonder why.
That's one possible reason, but I see on that map that there are counties with no labs right next to counties with many labs. I think a lot of it may also have to do with resources and or priorities of the law enforcement agencies in the different counties.
That's one possible reason, but I see on that map that there are counties with no labs right next to counties with many labs. I think a lot of it may also have to do with resources and or priorities of the law enforcement agencies in the different counties.
Yes you're probably right. I was thinking more state-by-state. For example, meth just never really caught on here in the northeast *knocks on wood*, hence the low state wide numbers.
I don´t wanna talk about conpiracies, but the main responables for this is the drug industry and their cold medicines with "ephedrine", the main active ingredient to make meth.
Remove those medicines, you remove meth.
It's all politics.
No, you just create an incentive for drug runners to bring the stuff in from Mexico.
It's all economics.
If you really want to blame anyone, blame the Nazis. They're the ones who first made meth widely available to airmen and soldiers to keep them awake in battle.
Nah Missouri ain't boring. Why da other day I found out my fertilizer ( made from my aunts pig crap) worked on my corn field. O nelly Im going to be rich soon.
My understanding is in areas where heroin/cocaine/crack dealing was traditionally done by gangs, they have done everything they can to stamp out meth labs (including killing known meth dealers), because they understand it cannot be monopolized in the same way as other drugs, and they'll lose a buttload of money if a generation of urban junkies and crackheads become methheads instead.
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