I felt that the large fucking book the EMCDDA recently released is too much for most users to actually read so this passage stood out as the only information I felt important, suffice to say I expected more effective strategies from European LE given the lack of a constitution and civil liberties that US users enjoy when the NSA isn't breaching them.
"From a perspective of feasibility and broad-based public support, the following approach is recommended for law enforcement in the coming years:
1) Continue the current work of combating the main cryptomarkets, focusing on administrators and moderators.
2) Prosecute the main vendors who, judging from the quantities ordered, operate as middlemen on cryptomarkets.
3) Seize cryptocurrency wherever possible and dismantle cryptocurrency facilities that make it possible to make or receive payments for drugs.
4) Confiscate goods paid for with the proceeds of crime.
5) Invest in big data techniques, in order to link vendor nicknames and internet activity with certain IP addresses.
6)Convince internet service providers that unknowingly host cryptomarkets to stop, by entering into public- private partnerships with ISPs. Tackle conscious facilitators (such as bulletproof hosts) by means of permit regulations or criminal prosecution, to ensure that providing this service is no longer pro table.
7) Professionalise checks on parcel post to greatly reduce the odds of successfully shipping drugs by mail, a move that would hit both the conventional and the internet drug trade.
8) Develop a strategy to diminish the trust of vendors and buyers in the reliability of cryptomarkets."
This is an interesting one. Perhaps they will start a Department of FUD to carry this out. AKA "The FUDs."