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The Illicit Drug Trade

2. Early Drug Regulation 1906 – Pure Food and Drug Act enacted
1914 – Congress enacted the Harrison Narcotics Act
1940's & 50's – Marijuana and cocaine use slowly gained popularity

3. The Impact of Drugs on Society
Cycle of Disorder
Overall fear of disorder by residents (Crime vs. Fear of Crime)
Disorder increases when there is litter in the streets or broken windows, etc.
Residents begin to move out
New households are more likely to be single parent families

4. The Impact of Drugs on Society
Cycle of Disorder
Informal community control
Policing the drug problem is no easy task. (See Strategies below.)

5. The Impact of Drugs on Society
Drugs and Violent Crime
Intramural Violence
Aggression among drug traffickers
Intermural Violence
Aggression by drug traffickers against the police. Threats/violence to those who oppose drug dealing in their neighborhood.

6. The Impact of Drugs on Society
Drugs and Organized Crime
Drug Trafficking Organizations
Core organizations
Secondary organizations
Local organizations

7. Players in the Drug Business
Organized Crime Groups
Manufacturing End
Refiners and wholesalers
Traffickers
Dealers

8. Players in the Drug Business
Cali Cartel (Mexico)
Other groups
Juveniles are used as lookouts for crack houses or drug couriers
Drug users themselves
Street Dealers

9. The Business of Drugs Cold Calculating Money-driven business
Operates 7 days a week all year long

10. Southeast Asia Consider the history of the opium trade
Opium, heroin, and morphine are all derived from the opium poppy (Papaver Somniferum)
Opium was used mainly as a painkiller in Asia, Middle East, and Europe

11. Southwest Asia
Second Asian geographical region of illicit opium production
Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan make up the Golden Crescent
Golden Crescent produced more than 8,000 of the world's 9,000 total tons of opium. Shipped to Middle East,, Far East, HI and CA.

12. Trends of Organized Drug Trafficking
Organization
Vertically integrated
When a drug-manufacturing organization merges with an organization proficient in street level distribution
Horizontally integrated
When one crime organization absorbs another organization in the same drug market

13. Drugs and Drug-Trafficking Techniques
Domestic organizations cultivate, produce, and manufacture illegal drugs such as:
Marijuana
PCP
LSD
Meth

14. Drug-Control Strategies
Problems associated with the illicit drug problem is violence that is associated with it
A side effect of this problem is that it spills over into neighborhoods

15. Drug-Control Strategies
Strategy 1: Expressive Law Enforcement
Law enforcement strategy that suggests more police resources be devoted to the drug problem
Strategy 2: Mr. Big Strategy
Employ sophisticated investigative procedures using wiretaps, informants, and undercover operatives

16. Drug-Control Strategies
Strategy 3: Gang Control
View gangs as organized crime enterprises and to use all the techniques that have been developed to deal with traditional organized crime
Strategy 4: Citywide Street-Level Drug Enforcement
Disrupt open dealing by driving it back indoors

17. Drug-Control Strategies
Strategy 5: Neighborhood Crackdowns
Police can crackdown on drug offenses in neighborhoods that are willing to join the police in resisting drug abuse
Strategy 6: Drug Abuse Prevention
Focus on drug user rather than dealer

18. Other Control Strategies
Source country crop control
Control foreign production of opium and coca and restricting both foreign and domestic cultivation of marijuana.
Encourage farmers not to grow it.
Buy it and destroy it.
Eradicate it.

19. Other Control Strategies
Interdiction
Based on the rationalization that foreign countries are not effective in preventing the production of illicit drugs and therefore the flow of drugs in the country must be stopped at the US border.