New and Cooperative Measures are needed to Defeat Transnational Crime

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Monday, January 14, 2013

New and Cooperative Measures are needed toDefeat Transnational Crime

By Jerry Brewer

Although it seems virtually impossible to calculatethe number of deaths attributed to organized crime,

and drug related gang activities, in the United States,crime watchers note the violence and death tolls thatcontinue to mount at alarming rates south of the USborder.

More aggressive and ongoing conflicts roll on asprolonged military-styled law enforcementcampaigns continue against multi-national criminalinsurgents who regularly regroup, restructure, andadapt to creative strategic crime interdictionmethods.

The threats and subtle acts to legalize drugs hascontinued to mobilize street gangs, organizedcriminal consortiums, and other ruthless desperadosto adjust and conform to alternatives that areperhaps more deadly, personally invasive, andoutrageously profitable as well.

As far north in the Americas as Mexico, tens ofthousands of people are reported missing, with morethan 60,000 killed over the past six years. Thenumber of those missing and killed beyond Mexico,in Central America, is absolutely mind-boggling --and outrageous for the 21st Century.

Where is respect for human life and the rule of law?

How are governments addressing this, and whatmust leaders and officials in the path of the bloody
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carnage do to protect citizens and guard againstanarchy in the face of transnational organized crimecontrol?

The "drug war" vernacular doesn't work anymore,

and it has always moved us into instant complacencyand the formulating of naive opinions, by hedonisticand much political thought/rhetoric, that"prohibition" has caused all of this. Imagine gettingthe families of the thousands of murdered andmissing women and migrants tossed in mass gravesthroughout the hemisphere to buy into that.

The enemy is clearly a transnational and systematickilling machine. The enemy's focus is to possesssuperior armament and a capable strategy that isbased on violence and territorial acquisition to actwith impunity. It remains a fluid epidemic that filtersthrough much of Latin America, a corridor that is aswinging gateway for financing efforts through amyriad of illegal operational acts.

Drugs and other contraband supplies remainconsistent, although highly technical US druginterdiction assistance by the US military andMexican counterparts make this extremely risky anddangerous for criminals less skilled, and forces muchof the contraband to go further south and out

through other more facilitative venues andinternational markets.

This leaves the locals of home grown origin, andother fragmented cell-like criminal organizations, toincreasingly commit crimes such as highly lucrativeransom through kidnapping and extortion; brazenarmed robberies while using high-tech weapons;cargo and oil theft; human/migrant/sex trafficking;murder for hire; and associated acts of power andviolence for profit.

Facing these enemies, who are increasinglyadaptable, with sophisticated capabilities, that tooconstantly employ new and advanced technologies tofacilitate their agendas, requires much more thanenforcement officials just pushing back with strongermilitarized force techniques. Effective policing andother criminal justice infrastructure institutions,


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strategies and techniques must be implemented andtake hold in order to establish true law and order.These things in addition to improving court processesand correctional systems for enhanced justice forhomelands.

Of course this is a monumental task, but incrediblynecessary to succeed with a competent system ofustice throughout the regions. Many of the

transnational criminal organizations appear to ownthe police, the judiciary and the prison systems. Theyhave viciously murdered and tortured governmentofficials, police officers, journalists and citizens. Withtheir virtually limitless funds and unlimited access toweaponry, they clearly have the ability to destabilizean entire hemisphere.

Narcoterrorists, such as Los Zetas that crossed intoGuatemala, wasted no time with their corruption,extortion and ruthless enforcement methods. Therethey promptly, as well as rather easily, penetrated keystate institutions. Their actions in Guatemala werequickly destabilizing, which helped to transformGuatemala into a nearly lawless state. That complexsituation of aggression forced former General andnow President of Guatemala Otto Perez into a toppriority of ending the long-standing US ban onmilitary aid to his homeland.

The ascendancy and graphic examples of criminalgang dominance within Guatemala, Honduras and ElSalvador, by organized criminals that havesuccessfully infiltrated those nations, show that theyare composed of elements of the most vicious andruthless criminals on earth.

Two of the main organized crime gangs in Guatemalaare the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18.Reports demonstrate an emerging centralized

leadership within these organizations, whichindicates an adapting hierarchal formation to meetincreased demands to grow and have better control offailing cells in many of the principal cities in the US,where gang members also live and operate.

Targeting specific regional crime from aninternational perspective in these seriously affected


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regions, with highly strategic and cross functionalinitiatives to meet the new adaptive and emergingtrends, is critical to all those in the path of theescalating threats.

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Jerry Breweris C.E.O. of Criminal JusticeInternational Associates, a global threat mitigationfirm headquartered in northern Virginia. His websiteis located athttp://www.cjiausa.org/. TWITTER:

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