The federal government runs a program aimed at aiding areas especially hard-hit by drug dealing. Each High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA, pronounced “high-da”) gets some money and a coordinator who attempts to build links among enforcement agencies. The usual Congressional logic has greatly expanded the original list of five targets; there are now twenty-eight, including Milwaukee and Oregon.
Each operation has a geographic name: there’s a New York/New Jersey High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, a South Florida High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, and a Northwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.
The unit located in Denver is the … wait for it …
Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, or Rocky Mountain HIDTA.
No, srsly.
[Cross-posted at The Reality-Based Community]
