... drugs are destructive to society and morally wrong. For the past thirty years the government has escalated the war on drugs by banning every kind of addictive drug and pumping billions of dollars into aggressive enforcement without significant success. The case for legalization of drugs is not to encourage the use of drugs but to provide a more effective means of dealing with ... of view. Police chiefs, prosecutor, defense attorneys, judges, custom officials, coast guards, the D.E.A, politicians, social workers and most of all the drug dealers all strongly oppose legalization for their ...

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... estimate that outlaw motorcycle gang members may comprise 50 or 60 percent of those involved in organized crime in the country- (Wilkins). They are involved in such illegal businesses as drug trafficking, prostitution, money laundering, extortion, booze cans and illegal importation and exportation of goods. Unfortunately biker gang activity is almost undetectable by authorities. "Organized crime has changed its nature. They ... alone cost Canadian taxpayers an annual $1.37 billion at least "about $48 for each Canadian citizen- (Wilkins). The contribution from biker gangs to the Canadian...

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... them all the more enticing to the upperworld, with a glistening edge of mystery and danger" (Fox 77). The Mafia participated in many illegal activities, but drug trafficking was one they seemed to flourish in. Their drug related activities posed a threat not only to the adult population who used drugs but also to the children involved as their agents. The trafficking of narcotics ... 3 profits. These tactics included cars and houses being set on fire and even the kidnapping of children. These ruthless crimes and attacks began to really attract the attention of law enforcement and especi...

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... 25,000 Americans die each year as an indirect effect of drugs. A large part of New York City's 2,000 annual homicides are because of drug trafficking (Bender 30). The consequences of this "war" are as followed: neighborhood turf wars and shoot-outs, family ruins, school failure and wreckage ... drugs would be taxed at the point of sale. The companies or pharmacies that made the drug/marijuana "cigarettes" would also pay income taxes. Second, there would be a reduction spent on law enforcement efforts to prosecute users and sellers of marijuana and other drugs (Marshall 92). The most imp...

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... cities in the United States today. Kennedy has also developed techniques that have eliminated many drug markets across the country. The Three Community Perspectives/Explanatory Factors Kennedy explicitly describes how crime is precisely viewed into three separate community perspectives. The first being law enforcement, and how from their opinion in certain neighborhoods, specifically ones that are filled with poor ... minorities, the communities with open air drug markets are utterly corrupt, and that there is no heart left, or that there is no community left ... In this program, Kennedy...

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... notorious for being involved in a variety of crucial acts such as, grand theft auto, auto and residential burglaries, criminal mischief, weapon possessions, drug sales and or use, and loitering in neighborhoods and around businesses. Also, violent crimes, such as battery, aggravated battery and even murder are always ... these extra forces gang related crimes decreased 19% from what it was a year earlier (www.cnn.ca, 2003). Another way for law enforcement to deter gangs is to toughen penalties for convictions. Penalties can range from boot camp, to community service and probation for fir...

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... still challenges that need to be dealt with. Gangs are one of the oldest organized crime entities and they still pose a challenge to law enforcement due to their size and criminal activity. Many people think gang activity has slowed down. It seems that way because they are not the topic ... gives some summaries of what is going on currently with gangs, by looking at this website you can tell gangs are still a challenge for law enforcement. The computer is now a place where criminals can thrive and commit more crimes. We are now in the information age and information is readily available ...

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... other harmful drugs, accounting for 75% of the world's cocaine. In Colombia there are 50,900 hectares of coca, 2180 hectares of opium poppy and 5000 hectares of marijuana. Law enforcement and intelligence community sources estimate 65 percent of the cocaine shipped to the United States moves through the Central America-Mexico corridor, primarily by vessels operating in the eastern Pacific ... most of their cocaine and heroin to Colombia. Colombia's 80 metric tons of cocaine and 6.5 tons of heroin is then shipped to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Mexican drug trafficking organ...

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... a name. The practice of racial profiling by our nations police is the consequence of the rising concern about the war on drugs. Drug use and drug selling are not limited to minorities in the US; in fact, five times as many whites use drugs. This war on drugs ... since it began targeted minorities. According to the governments own reports 80 percent of the country cocaine users are white and the typical cocaine user is a white middle class suburbanite. However, law enforcement ... tactics are concentrated in the inner city. This continues to feed the perception that most drug dealers and...

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... names are usually kept secret and their records are kept confidential. The only people that can get access to a juveniles record are law enforcement personnel. These include the juvenile attorney, parent/guardian or the military. The reason why they keep all the information of the juvenile a ... to commit crime because they may live in places with substandard living conditions or may sometimes even be homeless. Homeless people are at risk of drug addiction and sexually transmitted diseases (J. Siegel & C. Welsh, 7). These places attract criminals because there is a sense that you can do...

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... gang (Miller, 1975). Research indicates that joining a gang - regardless of the gang structure - is a significant act for adolescent females, often with important consequences later in life (Miller, 2000). Law enforcement agencies first survey was conducted in the 1970's. It estimated that 10% of all gang members were female. 20 years later, in 1992, another survey found that only 3.7% of all ... are forming in a number of cities. A study compared Mexican American, immigrant Salvadoran, and African American female gangs and found distinctly different patterns of sexual exploitation by m...

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... organized police forces. Corruption has taken many forms and has continued to effect the police departments in major cities and small towns. While corruption has been a consistent problem in law enforcement, the nature of corrupt activity has changed dramatically over the years. The attempt to "professionalize" police forces through better recruitment, training, income, and working conditions has resulted in fewer ... in New York City as police officers committing theft from street dealers, radio responses, searches, raids, car stops, and off-duty robberies. They also discovered cops p...

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... in Los Angeles County in recent years. Juveniles commit many of these homicides. (p.A1). In response, Federal officials, in cooperation with local law enforcement, established the Los Angeles Metropolitan Task Force (LA Task Force), and launched its largest crackdown ever on LA gangs. The FBI increased its gang ... have committed an offense as outlined in Section 707(b) of the W⁣ when the minor had attained the age of fourteen or older. Law enforcement is now able to release information to the public regarding a minor fourteen years old or older who has violated an offense as outline...

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... in their youth years for various reasons such as wanting a sense of belonging, poverty, protection, perceived respect, peer pressure, and family association which leads to a vast majority of crimes including drug dealings, murders, robberies, and other heinous crimes. American gang membership began evolving in the early 1800s, originating in large urban cities like Chicago and New York. Along with gang membership ... different factors. A variety of factors contribute to gang membership. Drugs became an essential factor in determining gang membership. People were not only using drugs, th...

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... the situation in Sicily that long domination by succeeding invaders had produced people who were suspicious, diffident, intolerant, and above all, enemies of government-any government-and of all law enforcement. Thus, disrespect for laws, hatred of authority, and contempt for all those who had dealings with authorities characterized Sicilians". Civilians in Italy used crime and violence to rebel against their ... to gain a greater grasp on America. A crime syndicate must have power to have wealth, and wealth to have power. Wealth was acquired through illegal acts such as prostitution, ga...

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... , 1997) In these gangs the lines between gangs and organized crime start to blur. They make themselves readily available to organized crime as cocaine and drug dealers. This pays for their expensive weapons and their own drug habits. Instrumental gangs'' tend to commit robbery for money. These groups also tend to be into drugs and may sell drugs but not as a gang ... ) as indeed it is being done, quite successfully, in certain parts of the country. Wayne Thompson in Oklahoma City says, we approach juvenile crime as a public-health problem, not a law-enforcement problem...Intervene, then t...

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... one cares about them. When these kids join a gang they have a false sense of love, and they get a feeling like they are a part of a family. Sometimes a kids parents might be drug abusers. This leads to all sorts of problems. They may be abusive and unloving towards their children. They are also probably very poor. They may not be able to provide ... for their kids or even put food on the table. These are the kids who would join gangs mainly for the money. Some gangs make a lot of money in the drug business. Whenever a person joins a gang their loyalty changes from their family to the fa...

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... murders and rapes, a quarter of car thefts, two fifths of robberies and assaults and half of our nations burglaries and thefts. The reason because of this is because when law enforcement stops the flow of drugs they become rarer. Eventually it becomes a game of supply and demand and the prices just keep going up. People who are addicted need the more ... our society today. It makes the environment in the prison even more vile and dangerous. Of 31,346 people in jail around 15,000 of them were in jail for drug law violations. In 1986 state prison were 114% over their population limits. If...

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