Jack, you are simply not getting it at all. Getting caught is not the problem. It is WHERE they got caught, i.e. right outside the very Planet where the drug is sold. You can't play that game.
If I can just undock and get caught, there's a problem. There is no 'manageable risk' for a freelancer sitting right outside Planet Malta, there just isn't.
Anyway, I tire of this. You chaps want a solution to increase smuggling but the solution needed is not what you want.