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George Pyle: Interdiction doesn’t work at the Rio Grande — the street or the river

“Fixed fortifications are monuments to man’s stupidity. If mountain ranges and oceans can be overcome, anything made by man can be overcome.”

Businesses do not fail because they don’t have salesmen. They fail because they don’t have customers.

That’s the case whether your product is a Betamax or methamphetamines. Whether your market is goods, capital or labor.

Police officers, politicians and just plan folks continue to push and pull and plan and worry and react and wonder why all the efforts and money that have been put into cleaning up the perfectly ugly storm of pitiable homeless people and heartless drug dealers that used to be centered on Salt Lake City’s Rio Grande neighborhood still haven’t put an end to the problem.