Of Mice and Men: Gangs, Narco-Terrorism, and the USA

[bismark17]

If your going to put together a Task Force you need to have aggressive people who know the players to get things rolling and they need to have the backing to allow them them to be proactive. They will naturally attract complaints to some extent if they are properly doing their jobs. The CRASH model seemed to work until they worked themselves out of a job and were no longer politically feasible. A good TF is also going to need to need various stakeholders like ICE and even Social Security officers to be effective. One of the ones we had up here paid major dividends. It turned out that some of the "participants" would rather go back to their respective homes of origin than to risk doing Federal time. It's all cyclical to some extant. Once the pressure is removed they come back.

[slapout9]

MikeF, here is a paper from the SWJ library you might to look at.

http://smallwarsjournal.com/document...treetgangs.pdf

Also can you give more details about what you are trying to accomplish?