Reducing Drug Trafficking in the United States Keith James ENG 122
Prof. Fawn vonFrohling
January 24, 2011
DRUG TRAFFICKING
Reducing drug trafficking in the United States My limited topic for my research paper is Reduction in drug trafficking through accountability within the legal system and through law enforcement. I will attempt to argue the point that through accountability and code enforcement, we can lower the amount of illegal drugs that are transported across our state lines and our boarders as well. The use of boarder patrol along the borders of Arizona, Texas, Florida and California with greater authority can make a difference. I will focus the basis for this claim on a number …show more content…
It costs nearly $9 billion per year to keep drug law violators behind bars, yet 55% of all Federal drug defendants are classified as low-level offenders, such as mules or street dealers. Only 11% are classified as high-level dealers.” (The Effective National Drug Control Strategy of 1999, p.26) This means that in as little as one or two years the major players in the drug trade can be back on the streets moving drugs from city to city and state to state while the low end street dealer sits in jail for five to …show more content…
When all the laws, adjudications, and policies are given the proper attention and enforcement, the war on drug trafficking can win. The first step in the success of it however small will begin with the one person who stands up and says enough is enough, not in our neighborhood anymore will this be tolerated. We live in a world of instant results and instant gratification, once this mindset is changed to realize that it will take time and a lot of effort from the entire country not just government officials the results can be significant.
DRUG TRAFFICKING References
Bill McCollum. (1988, June 30). Sanctions-Against Those Who Use Drugs: [FINAL Edition]. The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext), p. a19. (Document ID: 73615028).
The Comprehensive Anti-Drug Act of 1988 (H.R. 4842), http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d100:HR04842
The Effective Drug Control Strategy of 1999, http://www.csdp.org/edcs/page26.htm
Obama Administrations National Strategy to Reduce Drug Trafficking and Flow of Bulk Cash and Weapons across Southwest Border,