Editing Blattman Lessing Tobon Duncan 2022 (section)

=== '''''Descriptive Analysis'''''===
*''The State'': Medellín has 2.6 million people,269 nieghborhoods or ''barrios'', and about 2500 civilian staff from The Secretariat to provide on-call response to violence and emergencies. The Metropolitan Polcie is separate from the governemnt and has about 280 officers per 100,000 people.
*''Combo Organizations and Operations'':380 ''combos'', 354 of which are in Medellín, and Blattman, Duncan, Tobón,and Lessing have the most detailed information on 12 ''combos''. ''Combo'' revenue comes from retail drug sales in ''plazas de vicio'', a business security fee for protection services, local loan-sharking known as ''gota a gota'', and collect debts for a fee while managing local consumer markets. Most combos are small and have autonomy, led by a ''coordinador'; with a long-term relational contract with ''razones'' who supply wholesale drugs for the ''combo'''s retail operations