No remedy for ‘Posse’: International drug cartel in Toronto’s northwest end | National Post

No remedy for ‘Posse’: International drug cartel in Toronto’s northwest end | National Post: "international cartel called the Jamaican Shower Posse had been pulling the strings in Toronto’s northwest end, supplying drugs and guns to smaller gangs and fueling violence in the area.
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair heralded the raids as a significant strike at the Shower Posse’s operations, but gang experts and sources in the Caribbean say such claims should be taken with a grain of salt.
The gang’s alleged leader, Christopher “Dudus” Coke, is likely the most powerful man in Jamaica, “perhaps more powerful than the government and the prime minister,” former Jamaican national security minister Dr. Peter Phillips told the National Post yesterday.
Even confronting the organization on home soil would be a monumental and perhaps impossible task, according to Michael Chettleburgh, a Toronto crime consultant who counts former Posse members among his staff.
The comments highlight just how monumental a task is set before Toronto police as they attempt to head off a powerful criminal network in order to staunch the flow of drugs and guns into Toronto neighbourhoods.
Mr. Chettleburgh, who literally wrote the book on Canadian gangs — Young Thugs: Inside the Dangerous World of Canadian Street Gangs — likened the raids to “snipping the heads off a few dandelions” when the weed is appearing “everywhere on Toronto lawns.”"