Essays on Drug Trafficking

Assess

The mission of the Joint Task Force North (JTFN) is to streamline and implement an effective Command and Control structure and policy for military support to counter-drug efforts and fight transnational organized crime (TCO). The vision of JTFN shall be to meet the objectives set by the Northern Command Commander and add value to Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (DLEAs) in addressing the illegal activities of TCOs. The mission and vision of JTFN cannot be achieved without the support of appropriate key internal and external stakeholders. The internal stakeholders include JTFN’s staff in El Paso and its headquarters, law ...

United States v. Willis, 38 F.3d 170, at 179 Kathy Evelyn Willis appealed a court decision which had found her guilty of possessing a firearm during a drug transaction. Willis was also convicted of a drug trafficking crime as she transacted with an undercover agent known as Officer Debbie Bond. The case also involves a man, David Perez who was said to be Willis's lover and the defendant argued that he forced her to transact the drugs, and also the gun under police custody belonged to him. Willis sold Bond ¼ pound of marijuana and at the time of arrest, ...

Intelligence is the process through which a particular type of information is taken from collection, evaluation, analysis, integration, interpretation and finally dissemination. The information collection process is a critical national security activity that every country needs to protect from foreign and terrorist invasions. Information gathering process entails a variety of activities from the essential eavesdropping, spies, open sources such as radio and publications to technological sources that require a lot of expertise (Nimon, 2013). The introduction of information technology after the Cold War and the numerous developments in technology has made this collection process easier. The scope of intelligence ...

The relationship between drug trafficking, street gangs and guns has been the subject of broad research because of their impact on the well being of the global society. Previously, the relationship between these three elements has been poorly established, but an extensive research by the University of California revealed that close and direct influence of each with the other. While some youth gang researchers pointed out that typical street gangs are not adequately equipped to organize drug trafficking operations due to lack of cohesion, there are gangs that have an established leadership and organizational structure that allows them “to ...

Question 1

What is the relationship between guns, street gangs, and drug trafficking organizations? Personally, I would say that the guns, street gangs, and drug trafficking organizations are inseparable at the hip of every heinous crime in the society. Specifically, street gangs cannot function fully and cannot perform drug trafficking activities without their weapons or guns. Every gang member is in possession of, and has an easy access to, firearms of different models, types, and caliber. Often, the gang members use their weapons during violent operations and encounters with their rival gangs, law enforcement authorities, and innocent victims. On the other ...

Summary

A number of national policies are discussed and aired daily on mass media platforms and newspapers. The three national policy issues that I found interesting are sourced from these three newspaper articles:- The Associated Press. (2016, May 14). Reyes banned through May under MLB domestic violence policy. USA Today. Retrieved from http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2016/05/13/reyes-banned-thru-may-31-under-mlb-domestic-violence-policy/84344426/ Reuters. (2016, June 11). California Governor Signs Bill Letting Undocumented Immigrants Buy Insurance. New York Times [New York]. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/06/11/us/11reuters-california-insurance.html?_r=0 Shear, M. D., & Lichtblau, E. (2016, January 4). Obama to Expand Gun Background Checks and Tighten Enforcement. New York Times [New York]. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/us/politics/obama-says-he-will-act-on-gun-control-in-coming-days.html

Gun Violence Research Act

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Abstract

The application of the rule of law as well as driving the use of the law towards the creation of a law abiding society is the limelight towards the creation of a society which does not condone crime and its sycophants. Enforcing law is one of the most effective mechanisms of controlling crime in any area. The use of the police as a law enforcement mechanism encourages peaceful coexistence within the society. The control of crime is usually a major step in discouraging crimes in communities. In the places where there are high cases of criminal cases reported, the ...

Introduction

This historiographical essay relies on the works of six authors to discuss the nature of guerrilla warfare and its implications on political, social and economic stabilities of the nations in Latin America. The articles address aspects of terror acts carried out by both insurgents and regimes to engage each other. The historiographical essay is also important in using historical accounts from articles to discuss the factors that contributed to success of revolutionary wars in nations such as Cuba and Nicaragua. The approach taken by the essay is chronologically reviewing by year of publication, what different authors wrote on the ...

Abstract

The demise of the Soviet Union has been a major cause of controversies on the relevancy of NATO in the contemporary world. Many of these controversies are informed by a superficial understanding of its roles in light of the emergence of the US as a world superpower. Admittedly, the role of NATO has been pivotal in restoring order and tranquility in Europe and Western bloc. NATO’s military interventions in places such as Afghanistan and Syria have been crucial in restoring order in the world. With its revised rules that include global war on terrorism, and drug trafficking, it ...

Abstract

The demise of the Soviet Union has been a major cause of controversies on the relevancy of NATO in the contemporary world. Many of these controversies are informed by a superficial understanding of its roles in light of the emergence of the US as a world superpower. Admittedly, the role of NATO has been pivotal in restoring order and tranquility in Europe and Western bloc. NATO’s military interventions in places such as Afghanistan and Syria have been crucial in restoring order in the world. With its revised rules that include global war on terrorism, and drug trafficking, it ...

Introduction

The idea of slavery for many people is the images of black men in cotton plantations, working a whole day for no pay. The trade of African people for lifetimes of slavery is the other embedded idea of slavery to many people living in Canada and United States. These concepts of slavery ignore the possibility of a current form of slavery. The idea that slaves are working forcefully without pay in Canada and the United States is farfetched. This status of ignorance acts as part of the modern day slavery, where people, especially young girls, are sold for purposes ...

MEMORANDUM

RE: Justification for the Future Existence of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Criminal Defense Practice With countries across the globe, including the US, facing unprecedented threats from organized crimes such as terrorism and drug trafficking, the existence of the RICO is justified in spite of the looming budget deficit and likely cutbacks ahead. Organized crimes as transnational or national criminal activities organized and executed by criminal organizations or enterprises with intent to kill, destroy and maim for money, profit and religious or political motivation, pose the greatest threat to our nation in the 21 century. The RICO ...

Explain why race/ethnicity is so important in gang life.

Holmes, Tewksbury & Higgins (2011) postulates that the roles of race and ethnicity in gang life are rising to become more sophisticated. For example, more gangs are increasing multiracial and this affects the function of race and ethnicity based on conflicts between the gangs. Different scholars assess that race and ethnicity should affect gang membership prevention tactics. However, there is little proof to examine the linkage between these two variables. The gang motivation prevention techniques should cover factors that are based on racial and ethnic boundaries such as poverty and immigration, social isolation and discrimination, reduced educational opportunities and less ...

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When companies have to deal with data breaches it is financially devastating. The financial devastation is a result of money being stolen from the company and potentially clients. Therefore, clients may want to sue due to trusting the company with the data. Some lawsuits may materialize and this can indeed put a financial dent in the company’s profits. Furthermore, the company will have to hire lawyers to investigate and figure out who actually breached and hacked the data. This can cost a lot of money as well. According to research “These costs include revenue lost due to the ...

One of the leading trends in the economic theory of crime and punishment has become an economic analysis of organized crime. Prohibition era has led to an increase in crime and the formation of a huge number of organized criminal groups of black and significant enrichment of crime. "The condemnation of blackness" examines what constitutes a crime as a socio-economic institution, what are the economic characteristics of its functioning, how it affects society and what are the laws of its evolution. The segregation of the black population has forced many of them to go to the North. From 1913 ...

This study aims to identify reasons for growth in female prison population in China and propose possible solution to the problem. One of the difficulties of this study is that little research and data is available on China’s women in prisons.

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Female offenders constitute a small fraction of total number of people in China, however this number is dramatically increasing which is alarming and cannot be negotiated. According to the statistics provided by Institute for Criminal Policy Research, the percentile of female population in prisons significantly increased over last years ("China | World Prison Brief", 2016). Number of women ...

For long, the war on drugs has been fought through many fronts such as the criminalization of certain drugs, harsh penalties for drug possession and military confrontation. The military is being used to combat drug trafficking since it is now believed that drug trafficking has become a national security issue. This is because drug trafficking has caused widespread corruption, undermining of democracies and has sometimes been used to finance terrorism. Military action mainly targets capturing or killing of leaders of major drug cartels. Military operations have also helped in chasing, tracking and capturing of drug smugglers. Military success can ...

A 19-year-old high school girl was shot twice and buried while still alive in 1998 and Clayton Lockett was convicted of her murder (“Clayton Lockett” 1). After conviction, he was given the death penalty to be imposed by lethal injection and fifteen years later, his execution was botched when drug dosage was not adequate for death, finding veins for giving the drugs required multiple attempts, and the medications leaked into his muscle tissue (Connor). Witnesses to his death described it as agonizing and the response of the public again stirred the debate concerning using government sanctions to kill in ...

The man cannot be separated from many things. He cannot live without food, air and water. However, it’s not the complete list of items that are necessary for human existence. Humanity is also obsessed with the violence. Throughout the whole history, people invented a lot of different methods of punishment, murder and torture. So, the human history is full of cruelty and violence. Consequently, it’s possible to talk an infinitely long time about how some representatives of humanity have punished, tortured, and killed others more unfortunate representatives of mankind. However, we’d remember only the most noteworthy ...

The main idea in the book “Pray for Sheetrock” by Melissa Fay Greene is the racial and social movement. In her nonfiction work, Green elaborates the issues that faced McIntosh, a small town in Gorgias. For a long time, the town was ruled by a white sheriff who seemed to care very little about the skin color (Greene 3). However, he used his political tactics to rule the town like a monarchy. No black was allowed in any political position. The people of the McIntosh town accepted the status quo of racial discrimination and segregation. The blacks had no ...

The harsh laws that prohibit the possession and selling of drugs revolve around the need to not only curb production levels but also to reduce the rates of substance abuse in the ongoing war against the same. Subsequently, the penalties set against distribution, from the societal to international levels, are harsher in comparison to those of possession. After all, unlike the distributor, whoever possesses a drug may have a legal sanction to do so within specific parameters. For instance, in the United States, the use of medical marijuana to alleviate pain is acceptable in certain jurisdictions. Now, possession aside, ...

The film “Maria Full of Grace” takes place in a small Colombian town, where most people are poor and young people have no opportunities to improve their lives. The film presents a detailed image of the isolated Colombian town, which is located in the middle of a deserted landscape. In the film, Maria, the protagonist, moves in a space that seems to be completely unfit for her independent and spirited nature. While following Maria from one key community space to the other, such as the factory, the church and the open air disco, the viewers may become aware that ...

Colombian conflict - asymmetric warfare, which began in 1964 (active - since 1966) and continues at the present time, between the Government of Colombia, paramilitary groups, criminal syndicates and leftist guerrillas (FARC, ELN) for influence in the country. It is believed that, historically, the civil war has become a continuation of la violencia - armed struggle between conservatives and liberals in the 1948-1958. The victory of the conservatives in this struggle led to the unification of liberal and communist militants in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Causes for the outbreak of conflict, each party interprets to their ...

The Cost of the War on Drugs and the Effectiveness of the Utilized Strategies

The drug problem is one of the most serious and urgent problems of the modern world. Over the past 50 years, the fight against drugs has turned into a real war of states against the various criminal gangs. The government has implemented a number of different strategies; and it took tremendous amount of both financial and socio-political resources. The governments of the developed countries conduct the research in various scientific fields such as chemistry, sociology, and criminal psychology in order to develop the most effective methods of combating drug trafficking. Despite these facts, the problem of drug trafficking remains ...

Is the U.S Southern Border patrol Effective?

Abstract The primary role of the United States border patrol is to detect and prevent illegal aliens from getting into the country. Furthermore, it also plays a big role in preventing human trafficking. All kinds of people with ill intentions do find their way into America. Such individuals are a threat to the security of American citizens. They participate in acts such as smuggling, robberies, homicides and murder cases. In fact, a significant portion of the prison population in America is composed of illegal immigrants. Moreover, these people become a burden to the government since they increase capital expenditures ...

Democracy can be described as a government for the people and by the people. It is a government where the people have the supreme power, and they can exercise it either directly or indirectly. A good way of applying democracy is through free and fair elections. Democratic satisfaction is the degree to which the citizens of a particular country trust the kind of democratic leadership presented to them. In the world as a whole, democracy has taken different turns depending on the region. Latin America has also felt the Democratic wave and democratic transition has been witnessed in many ...

Brian DePalma’s 1983 film Scarface is one of the most well-known drug and crime films in the history of popular culture. Everyone knows Tony Montana’s famous line, “say hello to my little friend” (DePalma, Scarface), regardless of whether they have even seen the film or not. However, what many people do not realize about the film are the many racial undertones and stereotypes that occur within the layers of context. The film is based around the conflict between Cubans and Americans, beginning with the importation of Cuban refugees to the United States to the escalation of the ...

The drug war in Mexico has left more than 100,000 people dead in Mexico in just the past couple of years. “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, the leader of the largest drug trafficking organization in Mexico and his capture grabs much attention in the media. Still, there are speculations if the drug war can really end just by capturing the leader. Drug gangs are active and have no fear of the law. The slaying of Gisela Mota, the mayor of Texmico, just one day after she took office is an example of dangers faced by the society and ...

Vision

Our vision is to create the most compliant green car rental company in Saudi Arabia in the 21st century. Mission Our mission is to offer our customers the most affordable green car. Customer satisfaction is an important part, to utilize available resources to make our customers satisfied with the service they receive.

Values

Our value is to make our customers satisfied with the green car rental service we will be offering in Saudi Arabia. Our core values are honesty, integrity, transparency, respect for diversity, and care for social, economy, and the environment.

Stakeholder Relations Management Guidelines

Investigations by Liu et al. (2014) suggest the ...

The United States possesses a fascinating history pertaining to substance abuse. Even though there are many theories as to why substance abuse exists in the United States and why that substance abuse is taken to the extreme, there is one theory that greatly stands out above the rest. The United States is too protective and puritan in many ways. This is not a statement meaning to disrespect the United States; however, it is a relevant comment to explain why such a substantial rebellion from the youth in the 1960’s transpired with regard to substances and culture in general. ...

Introduction

Lean on me is a captivating story based on a real life experiences. Basically, the movie revolves around the lives of local students in a high school. The major character in the story is Joe Louis Clark, being the starring; his life typically involves issues of change. The primary theme of the story is to effect certain radical changes in the society; however, these changes prove quite difficult to effect. Due to the complexity of effecting radical changes in a given community, clerk has to be quite decisive, quick and ready to understand issues that require urgent change. Joe ...

Of all wars to have been conducted by the USA, the war on drugs is the least promising, with government and law enforcement agencies fighting it in a losing battle. When American authorities got it going some 4 decades ago, it was doomed to be a losing war for a number of reasons, of which one is a historic precedent never taken into consideration. It is well-documented that the only lesson we ever learn from history is that we do not learn any lessons from it at all. However, what America should learn is that conventional tools of mandatory bans and restrictions imposed ...

Weeks v. United States (1914), was a Supreme Court petition appeal for which Weeks had been convicted. The Court solidly agreed that a warrantless confiscation of property from a personal place of residence constitutes a breach of the Fourth Amendment. The case led to prevention of evidence securing in the federal exclusion rule by police officers who later gave it to the federal officers

Silverthorne Lumber v. U.S. (1920). Here, the question was to allow or not to allow products of illegal evidence in court, which would allow police to dodge the Fourth Amendment. It was held that the evidence was not admissible ...

Negative global issues

Human Trafficking

Human trafficking occurs as one of the critical global issues that have generated varied debates across various settings all over the world. Recent researches postulate that close to twenty one million people are trafficked annually across the world. Human trafficking has evolved into a global concern based on the fact that it results in coercion, and abuse of vulnerable populations including children and women. In addition, most of the people who fall prey of human trafficking are moved to various parts of the globe where they are forced to engage in inhuman acts such as prostitution. On another note, the ...

Introduction

Organized crime refers to a network of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals in an organized manner and who are engaged in illegal activities. Such criminal organizations are well organized with a clear chain of command and segregation of duties among its members in much a similar way to a lawful organization or government. The only distinction between organized crime organizations and other lawful organizations is that they are engaged in illegal activities. It is organized crime organizations that are usually responsible for transnational crimes. Transnational crimes denote crimes that have significanteffects in more than one country. This is because such transnational crimes ...

The 21st Century American family is faced with very many challenges and problems than in any other time recorded in history. From economic downturns, to drugs, violence, racism, wars, global warming and health problems, the American family is influenced greatly by these problems. It is shown in marriages, and child behavioural patterns, which most of the time lead to delinquency. I will seek to identify some of these major problems and how the influence the prevalence of delinquent behaviour in society.

Divorce has become a plague in the American family. Many children have been involved in a divorce since 1972. Statistically, ...

Adolescent criminal behaviour (juvenile delinquency) is by far one of the most discussed social issue in the United States since the early 1960s. This was attributed to the fact that at the time, the United States was transitioning into another stage of development. This growth and development however caused social and economic stratification where most neighbourhoods were divided according to ethnic background and economic leverage. This raises the issue as to whether poverty is an influence to adolescent criminal behaviour. Indeed poverty influences adolescent criminal behaviour.

In 1997, New York City experienced a surge in juvenile delinquency cases reported and ...

Introduction

Qualitative research is an important aspect in determining the effectiveness of stories in the network. In this case, we consider a news site such as CNN, where major world news can be extracted. By addressing a substantial number of stories, it is possible to come up with an effective conclusion and an overall trend of the things happening across the globe.

Part 1: Priori categories:

- Major topic of discussion: the involvement of the United States in the war in Afghanistan - Repercussions of the American involvement in the United states - Emergent stories concerning this form of involvement of the united states ...

Gangs have continued to grow and spread in many American cities and counties. This occurrence has been paralleled by the growth of gangs in American prisons. Researchers reported that the boundaries between prison gangs and the community have become harder to identify because the gangs have become more sophisticated, and are a threat not only to the institutional security, but to the public safety, as well. According to a survey conducted by the National Gang Crime Research Center, in 1999, members of gangs in prisons and jails increased from 9.4%, in 1991, to 24.7%, in 1999. Other studies reported a smaller proportion ...

1. Liberalism and Feminist theorist 

Central to the theory and practice of Liberalism is the freedom of individuals to make choices that will result to social outcomes. This particular school of thought believes that “the purpose of society is the advance of freedom, equality, and human happiness” (Auster, 2007, LA reply section). It is important to note though that when one person chooses not to respect the freedom and rights of other people, this violates the concept and therefore could not be considered under Liberalism. The various forms of liberalism: economic, social and political, adopt the central tenet, albeit in different contexts.

Liberalism, ...

In America, the predicament of drug abuse and drug trafficking can be curbed through many different resilient ways rather than decriminalization or rehabilitation. The government may skyrocket the rates of incarcerations for the narcotic users. Ronald Reagan made this effective in the 1980s and 1990s, and it may as well work in the current world. The public should as well be concerned about the issue on illicit drug use. The media should display the portrayals of addicted drug victims. For instance, displaying a victim who is a cocaine user, dubbed (Johnson, 2012 p.34). This will instill fear into the ...

Introduction

The state of Texas, just north of the United States-Mexico border, shares a 1,200 mile border with the neighboring country of Mexico. For years, numerous people who are not citizens of the United States have tried and often succeeded in entering the United States illegally through this vast border. Some of the people who enter through the border illegally are trying to relocate to the United States of America in an attempt to find what they hope to be a better life. Others are exploiting the border in the hopes of profiting from committing crimes such as drug trafficking and ...

Having an addiction of any kind is dangerous. However, one kind of addiction that involves the most amount of health risk is drug addiction. Drug addiction is an ill that can rear its ugly head no matter who you are, and that is reason enough to take notice of it. Sadly though, despite what many people would like to believe, addiction to drugs is still very much a part of modern society, and the numbers surrounding the addiction are mind boggling to say the least. According to figures provided by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, around 167 ...

Death Penalty

DEATH PENALTY 2 Abstract The main aim of this research is to depict history of the death penalty from its evolution and to show the role of it nowadays. A comparison of old and modern methods of execution reveals the movement to human and democratic world. The ancient death penalty can be characterized as one of the most cruel and varvarous methods. The execution in the Middle ages is also inhuman. Today, the society undergones transformation and develops of painless means of execution. Specifically, this paper considers such kinds of execution as burning alive, decapitation, hanging, boiling ...

Annotated Bibliography

Alexander, M. The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of. New York: The New Press., 2010. Alexander starts with an overview of the Jim Crow laws that promoted racial segregation where the people of color were discriminated against. He reflects on the intimidation practices by the Ku Klax Klan and they people of color were denied the right to vote among others. Although the US is over the racial discrimination and exclusion on the basis of color, but the modern day practice of discrimination is practiced in the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system has ...

- Introduction and Thesis Statement Sociologists believe that both deviance and race are things that have been socially constructed in the society and have been embedded in people’s way of life (Innes, 2003, p.34). Deviance attributes to the actions of one defiling the social norms engrained in the society, which causes one to be marginalized in a given society. Race is also a social construct of the society based on one’s phenotype, which often results to the stereotypes of certain people in the society (Lemelle, 1995, p.56). This paper will discuss how race impacts deviance behavior and sparks a ...

We have at our disposal credible information from our intelligence personnel based in Tucson, AZ, Mexico and U.S. that a new drug cartel is setting up business in Tucson, AZ. The leader of the largest drug cartel in Mexico was arrested last week following concerted efforts of the Criminal Investigation Agency, the Homeland Security Investigations (HIS), office of the Inspector General, the Internal Revenue Service, DEA’s Aviation Unit and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We have also used our undercover agents to buy some drugs from the business based in Tucson. Our agents confirm to us that the ...

‘Project Synergy’ is one of the major cases that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DFA) in the United States have embarked on in the recent past in their endeavor to fight narcotic trading. The enforcement operations were conducted in a total of 35 states, in the United States by the DFA as well as its partners in the law enforcement department aimed at the upper class of drug trafficking organizations. In particular, the operation was targeted towards the upper class of dangerous designer synthetic drug cartels and organizations that acted with no regard for public safety and the law. These enforcement ...

It is a great honor working together with your department in conducting this research and coming up with solutions, and strategies that fit to be put in place in improving border security. Upon completion of the research, I made a detailed report containing the findings and recommendations. The report contains information on the findings as well as recommendations on the measures that need to be put in place in improving border security. There are two key recommendations made in the report which are; increasing the number of security personnel on the border points as well as increasing the border check ...

The job of improving our border protection should be that of the national security to keep away non-desirables and undocumented Individuals from gaining access to the United States. Through the National Security we have the Customs and Border Protection Agency tasked with maintaining security along our borders and ensuring none of the unwanted aliens enter our country.

THE PROBLEM

However, with the increased cases of Terrorism being witnessed in the country and the more drug trafficking cases today, it is the responsibility of every citizen to ensure our borders are safer than before. We are witnessing more issues related to human ...

Illegal drugs are being misused by many people around the globe. Some of this illegal drugs have medicinal value but has addicting characteristics. This is the reason why they are being widely prohibited. In the United States is making a lot of movement to stop the usage and distribution of these substance. The declaration of War on Drugs was more than forty years ago by President Richard Nixon. However, there are many conflicts that weakens the War on Drugs movement of the United States (US). Military, US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and other US government departments are doing ways to ...

The American movies of the 2000s have been primarily dedicated to such important national and international issues as racism, gun control, poverty, drug abuse and crimes connected with it, as well as ambiguity and, as a result, ineffectiveness of national and international policy that is supposed to solve these and many other social problems. Among the most prominent movies of the decade are the 2000 Steven Soderbergh film Traffic, 2004 Paul Haggis film Crash and 2004 Terry George movie Hotel Rwanda. All three movies are based on completely different stories, but share similar tension born out of the social problems ...

Application of the Criminal Justice System

The criminal justice system operates on a very wide-range perspective. Aside from the scope, the same system also works on a case-to-case standards that requires the arresting officer, the investigator or any criminal justice agents’ capacity to make best and appropriate judgment. In a statistics released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it suggests that in 2009, the crime rate in the United States is has been decreasing significantly from when the agency has stated recording crime rate in 1980’s. In fact, from 13,403 in 1980 down to 10,639 in 2009, overall crime rate had been reduced (U.S. Census ...

Columbia is a country that lies on the coast of South America right next to Panama City. The country had earlier been under the colonization of the Spanish people around the year 1499. The country had a long history under the Spanish colonizers before they achieved their independence in the year 1819. After colonization and acquiring its independence, the country experienced many internal conflicts whereby there was instability in the country. However, the conflicts experienced have had a reasonable decrease over the last one decade. Columbia was one of the first countries to acquire independence and have a constitution in the South American ...

1.0 CHAPTER I 1.1 Combating Criminal Narcotics Activity along the Southern Border Drug trade has been rife with violence for decades, though the level of violence we experience today are extraordinary. Without working on minimizing the severity of the problems that confront us today, it is critical to understand the background of the culture of violence and the cyclical nature of the violence epidemics. Substance abuse is one of the major problems facing nations while costing them a lot of money in health care costs, lost productivity, related crimes, and other social costs. It also contributes to high ...

Invasion of Panama

Introduction The invasion of Panama occurred in 1989 when the United States of America invaded the place. The invasion of Panama occurred during the presidency of George H. W. Bush Senior. The reason for the invasion was because the President of Panama by then called Manuel Noriega was claimed to be a dictator and was known for drug trafficking. The government of US wanted to bring Noriega to justice. Noriega became the head of the National Guard in 1983 thus becoming a powerful person in Panama. The fact that he had this position of power he was then able to ...

The abuse of drugs is on the increase in most countries in the world with the antidrug campaigns bearing no fruits in most cases. The illegal trade is carried out by men and also women involvement in drug trafficking has been on the increase in the Mexico-US border. The number of female inmates in the Mexican prisons increased by 40% in 2007 due to drug-related cases. Efforts to prevent drug trafficking have been enforced in many countries, but it does not stop the trade since more stringent measures need to be enforced. Most of the drugs distributed in the ...

Sexual trafficking is a form of human trafficking that is targeted towards sexual exploitation. Studies show that human trafficking is on the increase across the globe with variant forms. Such human trafficking includes trafficking for sexual exploitation or sexual human trafficking, trafficking for forced labor, child trafficking and so forth. Human trafficking is indeed a menace as it is identified as the second most serious organized criminal threat to Central America, besides drug trafficking (Seelke 272-277).This comparative essay takes a close look at sexual human trafficking that is one of the human trafficking methods predominant in Central America as well as ...

Introduction

Over the past decade, drug crimes and drug abuse have garnered a lot of attention. It is estimated that every year about $110 billion is cost to the country through drug related accidental injuries and deaths, health care, criminal behaviors, dependency treatment and so on. Both the state and federal laws prohibit the manufacturing, possession, and the sale of certain controlled substances such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana, and ecstasy. Drug's relation to crimes is through the effects drugs make on the user's behavior by influencing him to commit violence and other illegal action connected to drug trafficking. In 2004, ...

Illegal Immigration and the Obama Administration

Introduction The current influx of illegal immigration at the United States and Mexico border affects every aspect of American life. For each individual residing in the United States, citizen or alien, the legal status of each person should matter to all of us. Currently, in the United States, the majority of our hospitals, classrooms, and prisons remain overcrowded. We can no longer turn a blind eye to the political, social, and economical issues that have slowly resulted due to weak attempts to combat the flood of illegal immigrants crossing into America (Savino 88). Political analysts have suggested that President ...