why are we losing the war on drugs and why can't we round up and eliminate the mara salvatrucha gang members?

Question

Is our national law and enforcement the laughing stock of the world or what?...i personally don't want to think so, but if not, why are illegal immigrant criminals allowed to operate without much if any repercussions?... also including Hell's Angels, Mafiosa, Russian Mafia, and any other gangs that are destroying America with drugs and murder...I mean it's not that they are hard to spot..if Homeland Security were truly dedicated to protecting our country they would concentrate on those thugs and not on sending a Homeland Security agent to Thailand to escort John Mark Carr back to the USA...

Answer 1

Yes, the gangs are a serious problem. How should we deal with them? Good question. The problem here is you have to catch them in the act or compile evidence to lock just one of them up. Hoora for the cops in in my state. They just hauled off a Hells angels (third from the top) member for a 20 year old murder thanks to dna testing. You can't just go around the streets of LA and shoot all the ms13 you come across, it would be nice but it cant be done. It would be nice if they could come up with a validation of association type of law. Sort of guilty by association if you may. If you bare the tats of the gang you run with you can be arrested and sentenced to at least 25 years in prison because you are associated with an organized crime ring who are responsible for deaths and drug deals every day. The first step is to get all of the street gangs and even the prison gangs recognized as a national threat or as terrorist groups or whatever then you would have something to tie the soldiers to when they are walking the streets with 13, 14, 81, 18th st, eme (sorry, that doesn't exist does it), huelga birds, ab, NLR, peckerwood, sur or whatever tatted all over their faces. But like it was already mentioned, we are to busy dealing with terrorists and fighting a war to worry about the streets of our own country. It takes an act of congress to validate a prison gang member and send him to shu then the department catches grief over it because it is cruel and inhumane. If that is what we face now in the system, good luck getting anything done on the streets about it. It's just the sad truth and theres not much that can be done about it.

Answer 2

Your "all over the road" comments speak volumes as to why "we" are losing the war on drugs... The war on drugs? was never taken seriosly by the American public. Perceiving it as glittering generalities by the Reagan administration to endure Nancy Reagan to a skeptical public with her silly ''just say no " rheteric, a band-aid solution to hemorhaging problems ( cocaine !). And of corse there was great funding for criminal prosicution but funding for rehabilitation was minimal. Then too, marijauna in other countries (Canada) is a slap on the wrist, USA is a life sentence in jail. Let's not forget its chairperson Elizabeth Dole, who everytime there was a train wreck, an idusrtrial accident or such, rushed to find a someone was on drugs rather than to find cause and prevention. Much of this faded away with Pres. G. H. W. BUSH and Pres.Clinton. Which all adds credibility to those that complain that revival by the new Homeland Security to a war on drugs seams to be more a war on the Constitution and civil liberties. The inadequacies on national protection by Homeland Security can fill volumes . Your case in point! Anyone checking those freight containers?

Answer 3

You can't win the war on drugs because so maney of the free people of America want to do them. The fact that you make it ileagal make the ones that provide it more rich and more powerful .Why did Al Capone make so much money off of booze

The only time gangsters made money off of alcohol was after the goverment implemented prohabition so to me the asnwer is staring you in the face. If it were leagal the Goverment could controll it. But it is ileagal meaning the Goverment has no controll and people do it anyway and the people who provide it are making billions. I think it would be better at least if the Goverment were in controll of it. That way they could tax the users for the trouble it causes. Its about time to try something. The current metheods haven't worked nor will they ever work.

Answer 4

we had the fight over drugs/alcholl in the 1918 it turn mafia grew as well as other gains, look certain part or population wishes to alter their minds by either drugs legal/prescript or by booze ,
home land has more important things then whether a person wants to get high their is a certain part of the world that wants USA eliminated little more important then drugs

Answer 5

As long as there's one person that wants to get high, somebody will provide the means. Where is it written that just Americans use drugs? There's too much $$$ involved for the drug trade to ever be stopped. Drug abusers aren't all as visible as you might think. There are just as many "white collar" junkies as any other kind, so detection isn't as easy as you would think.

Answer 6

America's war on drugs is an employment program for law enforcement and justice department agencies...
It is about as successful as was the Prohibition on alcohol and
about as good an idea...

Answer 7

Simply put, "We're loosing the war on drugs because like the old saying goes the government is the drug dealers."

As far as MS13, They have proven to be the most dangerous, no witnesses against them lives.

Answer 8

People who want to get high will do so no matter what you do.

We are not losing the war on drugs, it is lost. Past tense.

And as 1st responder above indicated-- focus is now on terrorist, not drug interdiction and enforcement.

Answer 9

We can't even keep hard drugs out of our prisons.
If we made security over every law-abiding citizen as heavy as that over prisoners, people would still be doing heroin.

Answer 10

USA is concentrating against terrorism and very much negligent against drugs.