Exam 10: Community Policing and Drugs

One of the primary goals of any police strategy is to reduce the violence and health consequences associated with drug trafficking.

According to the text, community policing requires that we abandon the all-out law enforcement assault on drugs and adopt solutions that focus on problem solving.

What government agency has the primary responsibility to cut off drugs coming into the United States?

Multi-jurisdictional drug task forces consist of large drug enforcement units comprising officers from a number of jurisdictions.

Eighty percent of total U.S.drug control spending is for education and rehabilitation.

In , officers will immediately or within a short time arrest the seller to avoid identity problems or flight.

are where officers pose as drug dealers and arrest people who attempt to buy drugs from them.

High-level enforcement is designed to do what?

According to the text, police should make harm reduction the criterion by which to guide drug enforcement planning and to evaluate enforcement programming.

Who is responsible for high-level enforcement?

This question is twofold.One, why did the United States declare a "War on Drugs"? Explain.Second, according to your text, the "War on Drugs" was false.Explain.

High-level drug enforcement has used two primary tactics: interdiction and concentrating enforcement on and apprehending leaders of drug cartels or organizations.

are specifically localized search and seizure type operations.

What are the tactics recommended in the text to suppress juvenile drug use? Explain.

What government agency has the primary responsibility of interdicting drugs that are intermingled with exports coming into the United States?

Retail-level drug enforcement has used two primary tactics: interdiction and concentrating enforcement and apprehending leaders of drug cartels or organizations.

Indiscreet drug trafficking means that police have:

What are the drug strategies or tactics used to combat retail-level drug dealing?

According to the text, in what decade did large segments of U.S.society started to focus on the drug problem?

The theory of _________ is based upon the economics of supply and demand and dictates that anything that substantially reduces supply increases price.