Drugs in Society – Unit 4

Discussion:

Currently there is critical attention being paid to the asset forfeiture laws and procedures in place legally and that have been employed by law enforcement for some time now. These laws allow law enforcement to seize assets accumulated with the use of proceeds and profits from drug trafficking, for the purposes of this course. (There are similar procedures for fraud, environmental crimes, etc.)  Criticism is being aimed at law reinforcement’s abuse of the process and a focus on “financing” the basic responsibility of enforcing the drug control laws on the books.  If my statements aren’t too confusing, respond.  Are the criticisms valid?  Does law enforcement focus on the “prizes” rather than on the duty to enforce the law?  Is asset forfeiture a reasonable tool to fight the drug problem?  Can it be abused?

In your opinion, how effective has “source control” been?

This week’s material consists of Chapters 9, 10, and 11.

Note:  For each unit, our instructor would like us to utilize the ATTEND/READ sections (either/or) as one of our references/citations, and to show information from whichever source is used. Two (2) references are required for Discussion posts and three (3) are required for complete assignments. The reference is listed as follows:

Levinthal, C.F. & Loving, L. B. (2020). Drugs, society, and criminal justice (5^th ed.) Pearson Education [Video]. V Camp. https://betheluniversityonline.net/

 Please access the school library and use some of the books or articles there for references. The textbook counts as a reference USE IT PLEASE! USE IT PLEASE!

 Each initial discussion post will require a minimum of 250 words and your two follow-up discussion posts must be at least 100 words each.  For the Complete section, there is a minimum word count of 1,200 words total for the four questions.