re: #43 shecky

And when they end in a net increase in drug related mayhem, the scheme is a failure.

Sure. If they result in a net increase, definitely.

But, in the meantime, an agent may help to move a brick of heroin.

That heroin’s sale may go to purchase a nice Mac-10. Which may then be used to shoot someone.

Is the undercover officer complicit in that murder? What if someone ODs on the heroin?

You realize we don’t treat someone who sells a gun to a felon as an accessory to their crimes, right? And in this case, it was selling a gun to a legal buyer who then sold the gun illegally.