Transcript Fighting What Kills

Fighting What Kills
A look into the Drug Enforcement Administration
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The DEA defined
•The Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) is a
United States Department of
Justice law enforcement
agency tasked with enforcing
the Controlled Substances
Act of 1970.
•Not only is the DEA the
lead agency for domestic
enforcement of Federal
drug laws (sharing
concurrent jurisdiction
with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation), it also has
sole responsibility for
coordinating and pursuing
U.S. drug investigations
abroad.
History of the DEA
• In the spring and summer
of 1973, the U.S. House of
Representatives and the
U.S. Senate heard months
of testimony on Richard
Nixon’s Reorganization
Plan Number 2
– Proposal
– Response.
What the DEA Does
• Investigation and preparation for the
prosecution of
– major violators
– drug gangs
• Management of a national drug
intelligence program
• Seizure and forfeiture of assets
• Enforcement of the provisions of the
Controlled Substances Act
What the DEA Does
• Coordination and cooperation with
– federal, state and local law enforcement
officials
– foreign governments, in programs
designed to reduce the availability of illicit
abuse-type drugs
• Responsible for all programs
associated with drug law enforcement
counterparts in foreign countries.
• Liaison with the United Nations,
Interpol, and other organizations on
matters relating to international drug
control programs.
Fields in the DEA
•Special Agent
•Intelligence Research Specialist
•Forensic Chemist
•Diversion Investigator
•INFOSEC Positions
•Investigative Technology
•Information Technology
•Office of Finance Career
My Focus Interests
•Drug Trafficking from Latin America
–Cocaine
•Domestic Drug Production
–Meth
Cocaine in Latin America
• While the problem of cocaine is
devastating around the world, it is
largely produced out of mere
necessity in the Columbian province
of Caquetá.
A New and Personal Focus…
• While the battle front of drug prevention
remains largely outside of our borders,
Domestic drug manufacturing runs
rampant.
An Interesting Parallel…
Tactics for Fighting Meth
• Restricting and Monitoring
ingredients for homemade
methamphetamines has proved to be
an exceptional method of fighting the
domestic production of this drug.
Tactics for Fighting Meth
• Promotions and visuals, as well as other
programs, that assert the negative and
disturbing truths of meth usage and
production are being widely spread in
hopes that the readers will take the
alarming problem behind meth to heart.
God Bless the DEA!
• Just like our military, the DEA was
created to protect U.S. citizens from
foreign invaders and to keep peace at
times of war, metaphorically
speaking.
• There is acknowledgement of the
Degradation of Society.