NCJ Number
119842
Date Published
1989
Length
28 pages
Annotation
This resource guide is intended to provide law enforcement investigators and prosecutors with an understanding of the relationship between drugs and money and of the use of criminal or civil legal remedies to achieve the greatest possible impact on the narcotics trade.
Abstract
A strategic targeting model that uses financial investigative techniques is presented to show how law enforcement can address drug trafficking more aggressively. The model explains the economic structure of the illegal drug delivery industry, shows how that structure works, and outlines strategic law enforcement goals and objectives. The manual emphasizes that people engage in drug trafficking for profit and that an understanding of the goals and vulnerabilities of the participants in narcotics trade is essential to developing more successful strategies to address it. The analysis also emphasizes that drug trafficking has an informal organizational structure, consisting of a network of more dominant and less dominant figures who have various roles in the business venture. Lists of specific enforcement goals and objectives.