Liquid Danger: Why PCP Remains a Serious Enforcement Challenge
Michael Brown PCP may not be making headlines, but its quiet return is creating a volatile mix of gang violence, toxic labs and unpredictable street encounters for law enforcement. America’s long running opioid battle has shifted into a new, quieter, yet more complicated, phase. There has been a quiet resurgence of Phencyclidine (PCP), largely driven by two well established Los Angeles-based gangs, the Bloods and the Crips. Generally known as “angel dust,” PCP is a hallucinogenic and psychoactive substance synthesized…
