What is the cost in blood to catch a "drug lord?"

This week Christopher ("Dudus") Coke was sentenced to 23 years in Federal prison. Coke was the "don" of a criminal gang and neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica, who was captured in May 2010 in a bloody operation in which 70 persons were reported killed or executed by Jamaican authorities, reported The New Yorker last December.

The New Yorker story is worth reading.