DEA's 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment

The US Drug Enforcement Administration's 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment is available at this link.

"The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the associated restrictions on daily travel, U.S. border closings, closure of nonessential businesses, and the broad shelter-in-place orders temporarily posed new challenges to criminal organizations and their movement of drugs throughout the United States during the first half of 2020. Global drug markets reported fluctuations in pricing, availability, transportation, and distribution of illicit drugs during the initial stages of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. Despite initial disruptions in drug smuggling, transportation, and distribution, transnational criminal organizations operating throughout foreign countries and in the United States continued to test new methods and use existing techniques to continue operating during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Analysts at a variety of agencies support narcotics investigations.

See a Sinaloa Cartel chart at this link.

See a chart used for identifying assets at this link.

How could you improve those charts?

This was an interesting chart in the .020 National Drug Threat Assessment. I think "lost in transit" means stolen; don't you?