. >> reporter: for dea task force officer juan wilson, it's just one front on a battle that has consumed him. he lost his father-in-law to a vicious heroin addiction. today, the search inside this home leaves him outraged. what did you find in there? >> we found a loaded pistol. it was underneath the couch cushion, laying right next to where the baby was, where we found the heroin, also. fully loaded. >> reporter: you look pissed. >> it's -- it's one thing to find, you know, the heroin next to the baby, but you find a loaded gun, you know, i've got kids of my own and -- little angry, yeah. >> reporter: more and more suburbanites once addicted to pain pills are turning to heroin. it's a cheap alternative and more potent. it's a quick fix and driving big business. why do you think heroin is so popular here? >> it's very afodable. it's cheap. okay si ckocon sin, dealers cha a dollar per milligram. if you have an 80 milligram dose, you can pay $80 for one pill, versus one pill or one dose of heroin in a capsule could cost you anywhere between $5 to $15. >> two females. >> reporter: we're at

dea currently has 66 operational tactical diversion squads in 41 states, the district of columbia, and puerto rico. these groups capitalize on task force officers and dea agents, to conduct criminal investigations and diversion of pharmaceutical drugs. dea regulates more than 1.5 million registrants. dea diversion groups concentrate on the regulatory aspects of enforcing the controlled substances acts with increased compliance inspections. this oversight enabled dea to proactively educate registrants and ensure that dea registrants understand and comply with the law. the diversion groups have brought their skills to bear on what was previously known as ground zero for prescription drug abuse. florida based internet pharmacies and pain clinics, as the pill mill threat is driven out of florida and moves to the north and northwest, dea will continue to target the threat with groups proven law enforcement skills, and diversion groups, regulatory expertise, and by educating registrants. dea and law enforcement partners have aggressively targeted both prescription drug diversion and heroin trafficking. from 2001 to 2012, there was a staggeri

dea currently has 66 operational tactical diversion squads in 41 states, the district of columbia, and puerto rico. these groups capitalize on task force officers and dea agents, to conduct criminal investigations and diversion of pharmaceutical drugs. dea regulates more than 1.5 million registrants. dea diversion groups concentrate on the regulatory aspects of enforcing the controlled substances acts with increased compliance inspections. this oversight enabled dea to proactively educate registrants and ensure that dea registrants understand and comply with the law. the diversion groups have brought their skills to bear on what was previously known as ground zero for prescription drug abuse. florida based internet pharmacies and pain clinics, as the pill mill threat is driven out of florida and moves to the north and northwest, dea will continue to target the threat with groups proven law enforcement skills, and diversion groups, regulatory expertise, and by educating registrants. dea and law enforcement partners have aggressively targeted both prescription drug diversion and heroin trafficking. from 2001 to 2012, there was a staggeri

like the man told me when i was working with the dea he said to me look, we have all the drug an addiction task force miami seattle washington but they were all urban folks. don't they use drugs and potomac maryland? don't they use them in silver springs or maybe affluent locations? >> said yes. as a matter fact they have got the better stuff. he says if we go out there run through their houses and do all the things that we do in our enforcement operations do our enforcement operations do you know what happens? >> will get a phonecall and they will shut our operation down. there goes all your time. there goes all your excitement, all your money and everything you're making. they are still using the drugs, just going to get our numbers up. i told him that the ethnic cleansing but this is what we have to look at patriots understand this whole process of how it's working. thank you very much. i appreciate it. [applause] >> from what all of you guys are seeing here today it sounds like cameras would be a part of the solution. are they actually viable solutions for police misconduct or does it need to be