I wonder if the overdose crisis, particularly fentanyl, may play a role here, particularly the CDC data. LE has been somewhat more aggressive in charging the person providing or sharing the drugs resulting in death and much of that is within relationships. Texas, notably, requires fentanyl overdoses to be listed as poisonings and the medical community tends to classify overdoses as poisonings using the ICD codes. Knowing the poisons behind DHS’ conclusions would help here.
The tragedy is real and while the number of deaths is dropping it is still roughly 3X the number of homicides per year. For all the “tough” responses of places like Texas, other than some example grounder cases, no one wants that kind of bump in homicides. So special categories like drug involved homicide park them. Plea deals to a drug distribution offense recategorizes them or classic reliance on accidental overdose (with drugs appearing from unknown sources) lay it on the victim. I have zero problem with dealers answering, but holding relationship sharing as homicide is not the best approach either.
The increase from the CDC over the past ~15 years is interesting!
That trend pre-dated ChatGPT, but I think an interesting security benchmark would be whether the current GenAI tools refuse to help with something like that. (Anthropic has published about terrorism topics, but the surface of more mundane illegal stuff is clearly much broader.)
I wonder if the overdose crisis, particularly fentanyl, may play a role here, particularly the CDC data. LE has been somewhat more aggressive in charging the person providing or sharing the drugs resulting in death and much of that is within relationships. Texas, notably, requires fentanyl overdoses to be listed as poisonings and the medical community tends to classify overdoses as poisonings using the ICD codes. Knowing the poisons behind DHS’ conclusions would help here.
My first thought as well.
The tragedy is real and while the number of deaths is dropping it is still roughly 3X the number of homicides per year. For all the “tough” responses of places like Texas, other than some example grounder cases, no one wants that kind of bump in homicides. So special categories like drug involved homicide park them. Plea deals to a drug distribution offense recategorizes them or classic reliance on accidental overdose (with drugs appearing from unknown sources) lay it on the victim. I have zero problem with dealers answering, but holding relationship sharing as homicide is not the best approach either.
The increase from the CDC over the past ~15 years is interesting!
That trend pre-dated ChatGPT, but I think an interesting security benchmark would be whether the current GenAI tools refuse to help with something like that. (Anthropic has published about terrorism topics, but the surface of more mundane illegal stuff is clearly much broader.)
In this administration, is there ANY credibility in a "DHS intelligence note"?