The Effects Of Drug Market Pulling Levers Policing On Neighborhood Violence

There are roughly 32,000 gun deaths per year in the United States. Around 60% of these crimes are gang related. In discussion of gun violence, a controversial issue is whether gun related crimes are blamed on the person who owned the gun or by the illegal gun purchase. While some people believe gun violence should be blamed on the people that cause the violence, others contend that gun violence should be blamed on the way people receive their gun. When I was younger and uninformed, I thought gun purchases are effective and legal. I failed to notice that guns the purchase of the gun itself is being conducted informally, which leads to people also trading their guns illegally. Between informal gun purchases and illegal gun trading, this also leads to gang related gun violence.

The Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy (TAVIS) addresses the problem of criminal street gangs and illegal guns in Toronto. TAVIS aims to reduce gang activity and gun violence in Toronto through targeted policing in some of the 13 priority neighborhoods where crime analysis indicates chronic or an acute escalation in violence (Siciliano, 2010). As an intervention strategy, TAVIS operates on the principle of geographic-specific, intelligence-led policing intelligent-based policing that targets known gang associates engaged in guns and drug activities who are on the verge of committing an offence.

Gang violence has been around for a long time all the way back to the 1800 and have greatly increased all around the globe ever since. Gangs are a group of people that fight and kill other gangs over turf,money,pride, and drugs. People usually join gangs from around the age of 8 to the age 20. Most gang members join because they have been abused by their parents or because they don 't have a family. Gangs treat each other like a family, that is the most common reason why people join, they want to be accepted, they want to feel like if they belong something.

My first reaction after watching the video Fault Lines- Baltimore- Anatomy of an American City was that city Baltimore is obviously a dangerous city and there is crime everyday. While anyone can commit a crime, in this particular video it was mainly blacks that were spoke about, I feel that they themselves sold drugs and killed people with guns because that’s the only way of life they knew and were not brave enough to change it for the better. The dealing of drugs was apparently big at one time and more arrest’s meant more money to the state, in order to stop violence and crime with guns, this meant trying to arrest each and every person they thought look suspicious. It seems to be that the black people feel it’s a “war on blacks” and think they are the only ones that we are after but it’s very untrue, it was said by the black man incarcerated that basically if you are of black color then you are going to jail. If people would be more open minded and stopped dragging out slavery from years ago, they would realize that we are not automatically arresting every black person that walks the street, it’s a pattern in Baltimore and it’s up to the ones that live there to change the pattern, prove us wrong and show us that it’s not a war on blacks but a war on drugs.

This article talks about race, drugs and policing, and understanding the disparities in drug delivery arrests and argues that race shapes perceptions of whom and what constitutes Seattle’s drug problem, and how the police response to that problem. The findings suggest that the blacks are significantly more in numbers among Seattle’s drug delivery arrestees compared to whites. The primary cause behind this racial disparity is due to the fact that police focus mainly on crack dealers who are predominantly blacks more than any other serious drug dealers. The evidence states that even though a majority of serious drug transactions involved a white drug dealer, 64 percent of those arrested for drug delivery in Seattle from January 1999 to April 2001 were black. It also indicates that police’s excessive focus on crack offenders resulted in the exclusion of those who delivered other sorts of serious drugs like heroin and methamphetamines. Blacks arrested indoors also outnumbered whites by a ratio of 2 to 1, although evidence suggests that the whites were more involved in the delivery of methamphetamine, ecstasy, and heroin and had substantial access to private spaces when compared to blacks. There is also evidence saying that racially diverse outdoor drug venues located downtown received far more attention than did predominantly white outdoor drug markets. The paper finally concludes by saying that the whites have long been protected from the threat of detection and sanction, and

The federal law, which punished crack offenses at a rate 100 times that of powdered cocaine, is a racist policy. The criminal justice system penalties for possession of crack, a drug often used by poor African American are more harsher than the penalties for the possession of powdered cocaine, whose users are white people. This is evidence of the racial disparities in the War on Drug. The War on Drugs has allowed minorities to become easier targets for law enforcement. The unequal treatment in sentencing between crack and powdered cocaine users is not justified. Crack is popular in black community and powdered cocaine is more commonly use by white. Law enforcement uses the federal law, which impact lower minority people who are able to afford

Violence was also measured. Violence was measured in three ways. The first was asking the residents how often certain situations occur in the neighborhood. Examples include a fight when a person used a weapon or if a violent argument occurred between neighbors. The second way is personal victimization. The

Cooper, Hannah LF. “War On Drugs Policing and Police Brutality.” Substance Use & Misuse 50. 8/9 (2015): 1188-1194. Web. 7 Oct. 2015.

Drug war has always been a major crime that is almost impossible to prevent. I remember seeing documentation on the war on drug with the Mexican drugs cartel near U.S and Mexico border. Although, Black community seem to have many drug crime related case, but if we look at the statistic the Mexican drug cartel are way more dangerous than just the drug abuser in the Black community. Many people who live near the border of Mexico and U.S are living in fear and the police are working hard to adjust the problem, but there is limited to what they can

The Los Angeles intervention approach produces positive and negative attributes to combating gang related criminality. Gangs in society today, are problematic in many aspects. There are many different avenues city officials can take to combat or reduce gang related crime. Various methodologies have been used to take on this problem and have had successful results (Spergel,1986). “The general idea is that if gang members will not respond to ordinary social agency programs, then the programs must move out to the streets in order to achieve change (Klein,1965, p3. 183).”

The “War on drugs” has shaped various aspects of public and criminal justice policy. The linkage between drug use and crime has been unaddressed problem over the past decades. New laws have been passed to deter drug involvement and increase penalties for drug related crime. The war on drugs has increase many court room dockets and higher incarceration rates. This war has caused a lot of disparity in communities because “Crack” was the poor man’s drug and due to the get tough tactics that the government was trying to enforce throughout this time cause the African American’s were hit harder with convictions due to the use of crack and causes more incarceration rates. Many would believe that the US has benefited from the war on drugs because our

The sociological analysis of gang membership explores the different types of effects that arise due to criminal involvement. Because of the social conflicts that are associated with gang membership, this paper will explore the different theories of social learning and both personal and control issues that relate to the recent surge in crime across Chicago. As we open the doors of a crime ridden society, the truth begins to unfold. It isn’t just the thought of helping, it is the action that remains the barrier between living a life of crime or a life that carries hope.

According to McGarrell et al. (2001), earlier studies suggested that directed police attention to high crime areas or to specific crime types can lead to crime reductions. Studies such as this has supported the concept that the most serious crime should be first priority, however the most serious crimes are what tend to use up a lot of the resources that law enforcement officers use. Wells (2012) focused on the impacts of firearms crime. The study indicated that police can affect serious crimes by targeting firearms that are illegally possessed and carried, relatively small amounts of gun seizures generated meaningful results. With a focus on high crime areas, the more serious crimes are easily targeted and resources will be

In response to question one, the immediate reaction to this image I exhibited due to the conflict between the law enforcement and crime is shocking. I myself do not live in an environment where horrific events like this image portray's happen every day. I am aware it does occur, but viewing it in this shot exceedingly alters my perspective of these altercations with the law. Furthermore, I do feel a diminutive amount of sympathy for these people caught in the perilous setting, I myself do not know what these people may be enduring in their life. They could be forced into doing these illegal acts against their will, they may be struggling financially and looked at this as an only option, or they grew up in an environment where these type of

Drug abuse and predatory criminality go hand in hand in a few, select social groups, while in others, drug abuse most often occurs without criminal behavior (other than the fact they’re doing drugs.) Despite what most might think, drug abuse typically follows predatory criminality. As drug abusers keep trying harder drugs due to necessity, the intensity of their criminal behavior escalates dramatically. When using more than one type of drug at one time, studies show that the frequency of criminal activity increases. But, when these drug offenders decrease the amount of drugs they put in their system, their rate of criminal activity also decreases, which shows that drugs can cause a person to commit crime. This shows that drug usage can cause crime and stopping drug usage can slow or even halt criminal activity.