USA. New York City. 1979. The raid, a big one, had about a dozen undercover men. The police were armed with battering rams and hydraulic drills to force their way into the fortress-like apartment, with its steel doors and frames. They were confident they would get some of the bigger boys in this drug distribution center for the "shooting galleries." What they did get were boxes of packaged drugs and a woman who, the police said, would be free that evening on bail. Through the window I could see the pushers watching and waiting for the police to leave.