(BBN Editors) This story of a organized drug crime ring on an American university campus is clear evidence that drug dealing doesn’t only take place in poor, urban neighborhoods as media and law enforcement authorities would have many to believe. If law enforcement agencies turned their attention from easy catch in Black and Brown communities to learning institutions like San Diego State as well as Ivy League universities, they'd see a pattern of drug dealing and use that would net them arrests like this……….(San Diego Tribune) San Diego State University police have contended with illegal drugs before, but what investigators discovered over the past year was worse – more sophisticated, more pervasive and more dangerous. Federal agents and SDSU police culminated a yearlong investigation into drug dealing around campus yesterday, the first anniversary of a freshman's cocaine-related death. Ninety-six suspects, including 75 SDSU students, have been arrested on drug-related charges as a result of the undercover operation, launched after Jenny Poliakoff, 19, was found dead in her off-campus apartment after a night of celebration with her sorority. An early-morning roundup of 18 of the suspects had the campus in an uproar yesterday. Students and staff members traded updates about what was going on at Cox Arena, where agents processed and questioned dozens of people. Some parents of suspects heard about the raids from friends or news reports. Officials said the tactics were necessary to confront the problem. “We know there's drug use in college . . . but when you have an organization that's actually based out of a college area, that's a whole different thing,” said Garrison Courtney of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. “You just don't see that.”

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