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Mexico's oil industry is already in the hurt locker due to their fields becoming less and less productive, so any additional dents in this business which...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34466436/ns/world_news-americas//

U.S. drug cartel crackdown misses the money
Criminals find a variety of ways to funnel billions into Mexico each year


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Posted by slapout,



I agree with all of these, but do we really need good jobs and a good education system to prevent crime? The reason I ask is that both of these may not be politically...

Slapout, I agree, and we discussed the generation of gangs previously, which remains a fascinating subject for me; however, I was trying to narrow the focus this time to the nexus between gangs and...

http://www.islam-watch.org/Europe/Current-Trends-in-Jihadi-Networks-in-Europe.htm





Numerous other sites point to indicators, but "hard" facts/evidence is hard to find.

http://www.corrections.com/news/article/18629

Ideological Connections between Gangs and Terrorists





http://www.corrections.com/news/article/18674

Posted by Davidbfpo,



David, your points are well taken, but I would like to encourage the professional community to take a closer look at this "potential" nexus between street gangs and Takiri...

David, thanks for the post, good to see the intellectual capital of DoD being employed to help American towns solve tough challenges. I hope it works out.

http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_4_corruption.html

The Mexicanization of American Law Enforcement
The drug cartels extend their corrupting influence northward.


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MikeF, I was asked to present some classes on COIN to a police department that had some troubling crime trends, but operations tempo and good ole Army bureaucracy prevented a formal exchange of...