That is a lack of capability and not a sign of danger.
In every business all core tasks are done in-house. A CEO must understand contract law on a lawyer level and cannot have each contract be explained. Going to court is always exceptional in all legal industries and therefore a outside Law Firm is hired. This being said, do all main corporations have law departments.
In the Hard Drug trade the use of violence is a substantial, defining part of the core business. It is part of every contract like sending a payment reminder.
'Nrangheta is in Europe the most infamous youngster recruiter. They are all of low IQ and lack social intelligence. Since the last coordinated and successful action against the actually Milan located syndicate, Italy is in need of building a new prison to keep the lower ranks and especially murderers for live, but those had a clear career path within the organization.
Independent Contractors are used in a different part of the Crime Industry. Secret Services and White Color organizations use those mainly against 3rd world nations to keep wages in mines low. Those are classic Mercenaries and only view derive from the French Foreign Legion no matter standard media stereo types. In their excess form, that is IS, ISIS and Al-Quida deriving from CIA supported Anti-Russian militants operating in the Afghan Heroin wars.
Children, willing to proof themselves to the hard, older, strong, rich for Street Cred, which is always Credit and never Credibility in the reality of street life as what goes around comes around, are a predictable liability with much greater chances of failure than success hired by illusionists that manage to trick the naive idiots.
A successful assassination is a high level military action and no Cocaine aggravated deadly brawl with a bouncer eyed by the female company.
Timing, situational awareness, a get a way path, weapon training, cold blood and being able to avoid both Police and Victim's Syndicate retaliation have to be taken into account.
Pablo Escobar successfully fought the Police of Colombia for collaborating with the CIA understanding for well that his violent death was a very possible part of this way. The point is, that more of his organization financing social investments into Colombia's people survived. than of those joining the CIA, which is the normal balance since Che Guevara in all of Latin America enfavoring a socialist derivative of market and state system. His choice of Death Before Dishonor still reflects in Sinaloa heads having turned into folklorist heroes of the poor selling Cartel Kitsch.
In those areas of the World violence and also drugs are a part of resistance against a industrial world that does not manage to outlaw its own parasiting and anti-social elements, but allows them to get even richer.
Those hiring children for high level military actions suffer as much, relative to their industry, from a sever paranoid psychosis as managers trying to turn Volkswagen into a premium brand while the North diagnoses that to its sober greatest talents for their active criticism.
What goes around comes around.
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