https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/19/eu-launches-crackdown-on-cocaine-smuggling

"The European commissioner for home affairs, Ylva Johansson, said young people were becoming caught up in an increasingly booming and brutal trade that was one of Europe’s biggest security threats."

I see Ylva is also a drug warrior. A lot of things make a lot more sense now.

"“They are being radicalised and groomed to become killers. They are the drug gang equivalent of child soldiers,” she said."

Even repurposing the same arguments and hoping no one notices.

"The EU wants to strengthen strategies to disrupt the recruitment of children, including the identification of early signs such as children caught involved in shoplifting or dropping out of school."

Pre-crime profiling based on fuzzy (and probably inaccurate) signs.

Even spooky numbers. I've never trusted Ylva numbers though. In any case, I think that tends to come from it being a black market.