To add, we are just looking at one of a thousand aspects of tradecraft. They aren’t just dealing with this. They are dealing with moving goods, moving goods across borders, in person meetings, transferring money, recruiting new members, avoiding physical police bugs, avoiding police tails, securing good and money against other criminals, and on and on and on. Each one of those things has a learning curve and takes time, energy, and money.

Of course after a bust, you could go back and say “well obviously they should have done this differently and doubled their security here” but they can’t double their security everywhere and they can’t know every single possible way that every single aspect of everything could become compromised.