Police chiefs link sharp rise in domestic abuse to expanding cocaine market
UK law enforcement agencies say new figures show that the country’s multibillion-pound illicit cocaine trade is directly driving a sharp increase in violent crime and serious domestic abuse.
A fictional cocaine profiteer gathers banknotes beside a packet labelled ‘COCAINE’. His money-counting hand casts an enormous fist-shaped shadow across a domestic front door. Inside, a woman stands firmly behind the partly closed door. The shadow connects the trade’s profits with the threat entering the home.
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