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...Richard Nixon's Washington, drug abuse has reached crisis priority. Heroin addiction mounts appallingly among American soldiers in Viet Nam; each returned planeload of G.I.s adds to the drug malaise at home. Once confined to black urban ghettos, the disease has come to invade the heartland of white, middle-class America. In the judgment of some soberminded politicians, the spread of heroin addiction could have the effect of precipitating an American pullout from Southeast Asia. The President moved last week to head off any such repercussions, declaring a "national emergency" and initiating the most intensive antidrug program yet undertaken...
...Overs. What has evolved, and is at the root of the drug war, is a system of distribution unique to Detroit. Heroin is peddled not on the street but from countless rundown apartments known in the drug trade as "quarter houses" and "shooting galleries." Quarter houses act as warehouses, where "caps" or bags are sold to owners of shooting galleries, of which some 2,000 are thought to exist. Along Mack Avenue there are 25 to 30 in one block. Drugs bought in galleries must be used on the premises so that the seller knows the buyer...
...that is needed to go into business is an apartment and an ounce of heroin (average price: $800), easily purchased at a quarter house. The pusher then sells part and gives the rest away to addicts in return for their bringing in customers. As the number of customers increases, the purity of the heroin is decreased, leading to bigger volume and bigger profits for the dealer. In less than a year, a diligent pusher with a $100-a-week business can be netting $10,000 a week. What started the killings in Detroit was a surfeit of aspirants...
Detroit police are at an impasse. Until November of last year, they did little more than harass heroin dealers. Standard procedure for closing down a dope house then was called a "tip over": acting on tips, the police would raid a house without a warrant, demanding entry in hopes of scaring the pusher into flushing the dope down the toilet or tossing it out the window. Many arrests resulted-9,143 in 1970-but only 1,500 ever reached trial...
...success. Since November, more than 300 quarter houses and shooting galleries have been closed, and 1,600 arrests have resulted in 1,432 cases brought to trial. Still, as Sergeant Sam Campbell, chief of the Fifth Precinct's narcotics squad, admits: "We haven't begun to control heroin...