60 journalists all spend one week covering Cincinnati's battle with heroin
&gt;Heroin is big business, but not for the Mexican immigrant Reagan is tailing today. He’s just a suspected courier who might make $500 or so. The real money flows to the gangs that control distribution, and to the drug cartels back in Mexico.<p>&gt;When they finally pull him over, police rip up the floor boards and dig through the driver’s back pack. They check the bumpers and the trunk and look for secret compartments in the doors.<p>&gt;Nothing.<p>&gt;Reagan is frustrated. There have to be drugs in that car, he thinks.<p>Wait, they pulled someone over and destroyed their car over nothing? I hope they had some really solid evidence, but the article didn&#x27;t say.<p>&gt;The agents don’t have time to dwell on what went wrong. About 7,000 kilograms of heroin are seized in the United States every year, three times as much as a decade ago. They will be hunting someone new tomorrow.<p>Oh, okay then. They don&#x27;t have time to dwell on what went wrong.