The Border Challenge: An Insider's Guide to Stopping Drugs at America's BordersThis book presents an insider’s view of the federal government’s dual mission to stop the flow of illegal drugs across our borders and to prevent streams of drug money from financing drug cartels, insurgents, and terrorists. Andrews focuses on current challenges facing federal drug enforcement agencies, how our strategies for enforcement have been redirected since 9/11, and why we require different strategies along our northern and southern borders and our ports of entry. This guide’s aim is to provide an operational view of drug enforcement to policymakers, law enforcement officials, think tanks examining drug interdiction issues, and military officials who assist federal law enforcement efforts. The Border Challenge will also be of interest to students of international development and social change and the next generation of criminal justice and law enforcement officials. |
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... RESPONSE TO FIGHTING DRUGS 2 Organizing and Financing Drug Enforcement 11 3 Political Leadership for Drug Policy 17 4 Turf Wars Empower Drug Traffickers 35 PART II: SECURING OUR BORDERS 5 Fighting Drugs and Violence along Our Southwest ...
... RESPONSE TO FIGHTING DRUGS 2 Organizing and Financing Drug Enforcement 11 3 Political Leadership for Drug Policy 17 4 Turf Wars Empower Drug Traffickers 35 PART II: SECURING OUR BORDERS 5 Fighting Drugs and Violence along Our Southwest ...
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... response was not an option. Drug enforcement policies might also have to compete with or become sidetracked by more urgent crises, ranging from threats of weapons of mass destruction to natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina. Even ...
... response was not an option. Drug enforcement policies might also have to compete with or become sidetracked by more urgent crises, ranging from threats of weapons of mass destruction to natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina. Even ...
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... response made me uneasy, because I understood how delays in the implementation of drug enforcement policies, plans and operations can play directly into the hands of drug traffickers. In 2007, during a trip back to Arizona, I met with a ...
... response made me uneasy, because I understood how delays in the implementation of drug enforcement policies, plans and operations can play directly into the hands of drug traffickers. In 2007, during a trip back to Arizona, I met with a ...
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... response to controlling illegal drugs in the late 1960s and early 1970s have changed in ways not easily predicted. Since the late 1990s, the market for illegal drug trade has become one of the largest commercial enterprises. By 2003 ...
... response to controlling illegal drugs in the late 1960s and early 1970s have changed in ways not easily predicted. Since the late 1990s, the market for illegal drug trade has become one of the largest commercial enterprises. By 2003 ...
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... response to an increased demand for higher potency marijuana. Higher potency marijuana is also more profitable and can be grown indoors year-round, yielding four to six harvests per year compared with one to two harvests of outdoor ...
... response to an increased demand for higher potency marijuana. Higher potency marijuana is also more profitable and can be grown indoors year-round, yielding four to six harvests per year compared with one to two harvests of outdoor ...
Contents
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Ch04 Turf Wars Empower Drug Traffickers | 35 |
Part II SECURING OUR BORDERS | 39 |
Ch05 Fighting Drugs and Violence along Our Southwest Border | 41 |
Ch06 Intercepting the Business of Illegal Drugs | 52 |
Ch08 Fighting Drugs along Our Northern Border | 69 |
Ch09 Fighting Drugs in Indian Country | 73 |
Ch10 The DrugTerror Nexus | 79 |
The Border Challenge | 83 |
Acronyms and Abbreviations | 91 |
Legislative Milestones and Popular Events in Controlling Illegal Drugs 19112011 | 94 |
Notes | 105 |
Index | 123 |
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