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Cocaine has had a long and prominent position in the history of
American substance abuse. As far back as the late 1800s cocaine was
commonly found hi patent medicines, elixirs, and, astonishingly, in
the earliest versions of Coca-Cola. Eventually, the potency of
cocaine was recognized and its purveyors came under gradual
regulation. Events hi the early 1900s kept cocaine use down until
World War II, but the extensive drug use of the 1960s once again
sparked a national temperance movement. Created in 1989, the Office
of National Drug Control Policy maintains responsibility for
coordinating and monitoring the nation's countemarcotics policy.
But responsibility for coordination and monitoring is not the same
thing as control. In Snow Job? Kevin Jack Riley examines source
country control policies policies intended to control the
production and export of cocaine from Latin America and their
limitations. Part I draws together drug use, drug production, and
drug control policies hi an analytic framework. It goes on to
examine the recent history of U.S. drug control policies, source
country control policies, the ways hi which cocaine prices affect
cocaine use, how cocaine is made, and the vulnerable points in its
production. Part II examines the economic effects that production
and controls exert on the sources of cocaine Bolivia and Peru and
probes the Colombian drug lord connection. Part III prescribes an
appropriate path for source country cocaine policies and examines
their implications for two other widely smuggled drugs, heroin and
marijuana. Riley disagrees with analysts who believe that source
country control policies can lead to permanent victory hi the war
against cocaine, because of the potentially high costs associated
with implementing source country control policies on a large scale.
He suggests a better strategy would be one that recognizes the
severe limits facing interdiction, eradication, and other source
country policies, and instead focuses on directing source country
resources where they will be most useful. This necessitates
defining a regional strategy that elevates political stability and
institution building, and demotes traditional countemarcotics
objectives. Snow Job? offers original thinking and practical
approaches to a multidimensional world problem and will be of
interest to policymakers, political scientists, sociologists, and
law enforcement officials.
Comprehensive analysis of the contents and impact of the source country control policies implemented by the US, particularly in reference to Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. After detailed analysis of drug traffickers' ability to defeat 'supply-side' policies, author recommends that the US pursue 'strategic goals based on institutional building and regime stability,' that is, to focus on strengthening the police and judicial capacities of Latin American governments to confront, control, and punish drug traffickers while also assisting governments with adequate interdiction, domestic enforcement, and treatment policies"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
'I WANTED TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE CARTELS. WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE. WE
KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT HARD FOR YOU. BUT AS
I WOULD SOON FIND OUT, THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE IT HARD FOR ME,
TOO.' Infiltrating cartels and bringing down international drug
lords since his days in 1980s Chicago, Jack Riley was one of the
best agents the Drug Enforcement Administration had ever had. But
when he moved to the border town of El Paso, he was on the front
line of the battle against Mexican cartels waging war just miles
away. His brief was to capture the DEA's deadliest target: El
Chapo. For over twenty years, Riley had seen the fear and bloodshed
that Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Loera and his Sinaloa Cartel had
caused, whilst the availability of drugs on American streets had
exploded. Soon after arriving in El Paso, Riley found himself
entangled in America's most deadly feud, and a bounty on his head.
. . Drug Warrior is a thrilling journey into a life spent at the
heart of America's drug wars, including the opioids crisis now
ravaging its heartland, and a unique insight into the DEA's
operation to finally bring its long-time nemesis to justice.
This study analyzes states' and municipalities' terrorism
preparedness as a means of providing law enforcement with
information about the prevention and control of terrorist
activities in the United States. This document reports the results
of a 24-month research effort to survey and analyze the key
problems and issues confronting state and local law enforcement
agencies in countering such threats. The study's three principal
tasks were (1) to conduct a national survey of these agencies to
assess how they perceive the threat of terrorism and to identify
counterterrorism programs currently being used, (2) to select 10
jurisdictions to examine in detail how they have adapted to the
threat of terrorism, and (3) to identify agencies' programs
developed to counter potential future terrorist threats in
conjunction with the development of a prospective future research
agenda.
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