massachusetts towns in the greater boston area, which used to be textile towns (lowell, lawrence, etc.) are now major drug dens full of latino/ hispanic gangs. they run drugs up into vermont and new hampshire because their respective borders are only an hour away, and you can literally triple your money just doing a short drive. thus, vermont and nh are now full of narcotics (used to be heroin, now fent) and have issues with gangs.  nh tried getting tough on crime around the 2000s, and they doubled their prison population, but that did absolutely nothing. the more drugs you take off the street, the more the remaining drugs on the street are worth, so busting one drug dealer just makes some other drug dealer even wealthier.  the actual solution is massachusetts needs to not have major drug hubs that act as a main base of operations for narcotics and gang activity in new england.
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