Take for instance the carribean islands, cuba , repoublican dominic and puerto rico. In cases like puerto rico, they counted with 5000 policemen, now the have less than 1500 , out of those, very few were in the "anti drug force" puerto rico has over 600 drug gangs/points thats one in 1.2km or encountering 1 while driving 10 minutes. You're most likely die by a gang war instead of police intervention, most cases are done because of outside intervention of the FBI or DEA that are the few. No one wants to work as a regular cop in those places like venezuela or honduras and much likely the regular cop isnt going to interviene against drug related crimes like the USA does. Its a whole different agency. You can't deny that being a druglord in Latin America is easier than the USA or European countries