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2019-06-02 — theatlantic.com
"The cellphones changed how drugs were dealt," Edlund told me. In the '80s, turf-based drug sales generated violence as gangs attacked and defended territory, and also allowed those who controlled the block to keep profits high.
The cellphone broke the link, the paper claims, between turf and selling drugs. "It's not that people don't sell or do drugs anymore," Edlund explained to me, "but the relationship between that and violence is different."
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