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Article: Chicago's New Federal Drug War Netting Small Fish, Chicago Tribune Reports.
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- February 24, 2001
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CHICAGO, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ --
A Chicago Tribune analysis of federal drug cases shows that although federal narcotics prosecutions in Chicago are on the rise in the last three years, increasingly the targets of this new drug war are small-time dealers rather than the kingpins who were once a hallmark of Chicago's federal war on drugs. This increase in prosecutions follows Mayor Richard Daley's call to the United States Justice Department to step up narcotics prosecutions in Chicago.
Bringing major drug organizations to court once was the hallmark of federal drug prosecutions in Chicago, but of the 171 federal narcotics cases filed in 2000 at least 70 ...