[starkparker]

There are people who'll flag anything suggesting San Francisco has any kind of problem, but please read this. This is one of those increasingly rare, truly deep dives that utterly demystifies something that seems inaccessible to the outside world.

No cartel wars, no kingpins, just efficiently distributed systems and networks of trust. Clever bits of business work tucked into the broader systematic cruelties, like dealers using homeless people as holders to distribute and deflect risk. The logistics of feeding the dealers. Heroin dealers invoking moral codes to explain why they don't sell fentanyl. Little things that show how this giant bogeyman is so much more of the banal kind of evil as everything else, growing out of wreckage as much as it leaves in its wake.