Anti-Drug Unit Officially Shut Down by DOJ

toomuchtodo 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rYIq0qRa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Organized_Crime_...

(Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, OCDETF)

aerostable_slug 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> One practical implication of this transfer to the Homeland Security Task Forces is that the group’s remit will be broadened beyond targeting drug cartels...

Good. If this structure is good at taking down drug kingpins it will be good at tackling human trafficking and other types of organized crime (as well as the cartels' favorite trade items, illegal drugs).

Sounds like a positive change.

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Jtsummers 18 hours ago | parent [-]

> If this structure is good at taking down drug kingpins it will be good at tackling human trafficking and other types of organized crime

It was already doing that, though. From this same article:

>> The Reagan-era unit, which comprises hundreds of prosecutors and thousands of intelligence and law enforcement personnel from across the federal government, has long been responsible for dismantling major transnational organized crime networks, drug cartels and human trafficking rings.

> Sounds like a positive change.

What's actually changed is not that it's doing what it used to do (which was not a change because it was already doing it...), it's that it's now being directed towards immigration enforcement as well. To complete the quote after your "...":

>> the group’s remit will be broadened beyond targeting drug cartels to also include immigration enforcement

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aerostable_slug 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, and organized crime's intersection with immigration is called human trafficking. I'm not seeing the problem here.

Taking a proven effective organization and opening it up to attack crimes above and beyond the War on Some Drugs is a fantastic idea.

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Jtsummers 18 hours ago | parent [-]

> I'm not seeing the problem here.

They already went after human trafficking and organized crime. That's not the change being discussed in the article and your use of the quote was deliberately misleading. Which, I guess, was the point. You're trolling, not trying to understand but trying to mislead.

> Taking a proven effective organization and opening it up to attack crimes above and beyond the War on Some Drugs is a fantastic idea.

It was already doing that, though. But your intent is clearly to troll and mislead, so good job I guess?

	▲	aerostable_slug 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My intent was to show the pearl-clutching intended by the article's author isn't justified. The org isn't being "shut down", it's being moved and its remit broadened. That is a good thing.