PUBLISHER: ANDRES PENACHINO
The impact of the Narco Jet arrested in Spain with almost a ton of cocaine settled the problem of drug trafficking in our country. Back in March 2010, also in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwere seized 387 kg of cocaine hidden in boxes of frozen cod. No need to explain that the drug issue is high on the agenda of security. Now, what is the drug problem?
this problem is living the rural laborer planting coca, CPA legal company to launder the money of the drug, the addict and his family, the capitalist and head of the cartel, workers in the kitchen of cocaine, the "soldiers" of the organization, the mother of five children of the working class district in one room of his modest home in a kiosk set-plus-selling beer or cookies or fasos slips, diverting chemical company, which distributes the pointer in your area.
Over the years, governments have ordered all its policy regarding the seizure of drugs: a policy was effective if it showed greater amount of drugs seized, a police force showed commitment to increases in kilos seized, a good procedure was the greatest amount of drugs captured, etc.
After many years of these policies may wonder: do any good? Does it involve the confiscation of drug trafficking? Is there a drop in consumption and therefore the movement of drugs when large shipments are seized? The answer is no.
The drug seizure is a portion negligible total market. Paraguay produced 6 000 tonnes of marijuana. It is estimated that Argentina reached 20% annually seizes only 4% to 9%.
The only effect of seizure is to affect the price of the product which, in general, and includes the annual loss by forfeiture.
Use as an indicator the quantity of drugs seized can believe that there is greater availability of drugs withdrawn from the market when there may have been the opposite: that there was more movement and, therefore, the procedures were encountered in more seizures.
is imperative to change the paradigm, relativizing the focus on the quantity of drugs seized and redirecting the disruption of narco-criminals organizations. Of little use to hijack a procedure where only 100 kg if they are arrested the driver of the truck carrying the drugs and the watchman of the warehouse where he was going to hold, as are the procedures that prevail here. Is much more effective a procedure that only 10 kg but kidnap leading to the arrest of the head of the organization, your accountant and logistics officer.
Another new focus is: what chain link traffic efforts should be concentrated? Where there are more damage to the offer?
Five years later, assess the impact of defederalization criminal prosecution of drug trafficking on a small scale in the provinces that joined the Law 26,052, which authorizes the provincial competition, driven by Buenos Aires.
In 80, the United States was pursuing all manifestations of drug trafficking, believing that it is damaging the trafficking networks. But they discovered that retail points that were quickly derailed replaced by networks of traffic and the cost of its loss and was "foresight." They stopped chasing small retail outlets to concentrate on regional networks that operate them. Its disruption causing a higher cost, because not all people want and can organize drug trafficking networks that scale, and less when the State is effective in combat.
should seriously evaluate whether we continue to allocate time and resources of police, prosecutors and judges to pursue the retail, regional networks or disrupt traffic. Pursue retail can serve to "produce statistics" that hides the cooptation of police and / or by the drug court.
The drug is based on the inability of public authorities, through negligence or corruption, enforce the law. So it is a matter of state rather than just a police problem, on which we build a new political foundations.
* Author: Gorgal Diego, political scientist. Former Deputy Minister of Security Aires.
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