Special DEA rave and club culture documents
MuckRock has published special DEA rave and club culture documents from 2001.The hilariously entertaining “insider” view on the “sinister” rave scene, functioned as a hand book for the profitable DEA departments of the American police force.
The objective of the DEA was and still is to arrest drug offenders and traffickers and most importantly to seize money and drugs.
The DEA rave and club culture documents details what they refer to as “raver behaviour”. There are references to the kind of energy drinks ravers consume and also where they buy their clothes such as Hot Topics.
They even have scant genre breakdowns for varying electronic dance music. Their genre descriptions read like something you would hear your grandpa say about “that rave music stuff”…
“A rave is defined by the music.
Types of ‘rave’ music according to the DEA 
- Techno – electronic and fast, classic rave music
- Hardcore – 140 bpm (beats per minute)
- Trance – gentle, but fast
- Ambient – slowed down trance
- House – 120 bpm evolved disco
- Garage – funkier jazz, lyrics
- Jungle – drum and bass, hip hop”
Where to buy our glow stick…
The DEA rave and club culture documents also covers where ravers buy their glow sticks, like petrol stations near the Mojave Desert. And apparently ravers also have an “enhanced sense of sight”.
“Candy ravers” are singled out to be those who rock fuzzy animal backpacks with their favourite kids’ show characters.
This special insider knowledge is what helped the DEA with their very important law enforcement work.
They even had ‘intel’ on what the special “code word” PLUR meant. According to the report, the information was expertly put together by a retired detective that had been attending these rave parties since 1992.
The DEA rave and club culture documents even described how “some ravers would arrive to the party already dressed and others would get dressed at the rave”. Police work at its finest.
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