The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is to implement the illegal substances laws and regulations of the United States and bring to the civil and criminal justice organization of the United States‚ or any other knowledgeable control‚ those organizations and primary members of organizations‚ involved in the growing‚ manufacture‚ or distribution of illegal substances appearing in or destined for unlawful traffic in the United States; and to advocate and sustain non-enforcement plans aimed at reducing
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Issue Identification The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a United States Department of Justice law enforcement agency. Their purposes in law enforcement is to stop the sale of illegal drugs‚ drug trafficking‚ investigate major crimes within the United States and internationally‚ and to secure and protect our communities from ever confronting drugs. DEA also cooperates with many major law enforcement agencies such as federal‚ state‚ local‚ and foreign law enforcement agencies to stop criminals
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The Role of Drug Enforcement Drugs are being more and more available to minors and adults. They are often illegally produced and distributed throughout the nation or foreignly. Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Agency‚ better known as the DEA‚ “during his presidency in 1976” (Garvey) to combat this criminal activity. Naturally‚ since under the President’s control‚ it is an administrative agency. Administrative agencies hold their own power and have the ability to arrest and carry out their specific
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Kennedy (2003) called “Drug Wars in Black and White” and the second article is called “Street-Level Drug Law Enforcement” by Lorraine Mazerolle‚ David W. Soole and Sacha Rombouts in 2006. In addition‚ the last article is by David Dixon and Phillip Coffin (1999) called “Zero Tolerance Policing in Illegal Drug Markets” from the Drug and Alcohol Review. Summary Kennedy (2003) discusses the background of the war on drugs in 1920s and provides information that shows a difference of the drug wars being less punitive
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Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) For a long period of time‚ illegal drugs have become a nuisance in the society. Many lives have been taken and wasted because of illegal drugs. Many families have also been broken due to drug involvement of one of the family members. The futures of the young people have also been risked by drugs. As such‚ the government has taken all the effort to curtail the illegal drugs in the society by enacting laws criminalizing illegal drug-related activities‚ implementing programs
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community is that smuggling drugs is now a serious problem in American. It is a known fact that most police officers who should be upholding the law are as corrupt as the drug dealers. Fairly low paid officers are able to accumulate enormous profit from illegal drug sale. In contrast to the traditional police corruption in which police takes bribes from gangster to look the other way rather than enforce the law‚ many police officer have become drugs baron themselves. Drugs corruption has also penetrated
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The Drug Enforcement Administration was established on July 1‚ 1973‚ by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973‚ signed by President Richard Nixon on July 28.[2] It proposed the creation of a single federal agency to enforce the federal drug laws as well as consolidate and coordinate the government’s drug control activities. Congress accepted the proposal‚ as they were concerned with the growing availability of drugs.[3] As a result‚ the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD)‚ the Office of Drug
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Drug Laws and Drug Law Enforcement Since the late 19th century‚ the federal and states governments of the United States have enacted laws and policies to deter the use and distribution of illegal drugs. These laws and policies have not only deemed what drugs are legal and illegal‚ but have also established penalties for the possession and distribution of these substances and established federal agencies to control drug use and administer drug law enforcement. This essay will not only examine
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A Paper on Police Drug Law Enforcement presented by Michael Jakobam‚ S.S‚ SSP‚ O.C Anti-Narcotics Unit at the Interministerial Drug Coordinating Workshop‚ KCCT Mbagathi-Nairobi‚ 10th-14th May‚ 1999 | |3.0 LEGISLATION In response to the International Conventions on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances‚ the Government of Kenya enacted in 1994 the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act No. 4. The main features of this Act which incorporates various provisions of the three
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The War on Drugs and Prison Overcrowding David Turner CCJ 1020 October 06‚ 2012 Overcrowding is one of the most difficult challenges that prison administrators face in the United States. There are many factors that that affect the constant flow of people being processed into today’s prisons. The “war on drugs” has led to more arrest and convictions that any other crime. The money spent on the prohibition of drugs and the law enforcement presence to stop drug trafficking raises high into the
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