Drug War: The Corruption In Mexico

Ethical challenges are of universal span; many people including police officers are confronted with the opportunities for violating organizational rules and norms daily. Most of the stories about police officers in the media, including Cops and Criminal Minds, are about respectable police officers, but the intense 2001 movie Training Day is not. Alonzo Harris, a veteran police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), is training Jake Hoyt, a rookie officer on his first day with the narcotics unit. Harris’ character is an example of police officers’ potential for corruption. For instance, when Harris misuses the police authority and uses some fake arrest warrant seizing millions of dollars from a former LAPD veteran, now an informant

Rosalyn plays an important part in the movie, she has the power to ruin the whole plan is she makes one simple mistake. The film was inspired by a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FDI) sting operation, ABSCAM. While the FBI was looking for the people who have stolen a piece of art, they discovered more than what they set out to find. They were able to find criminals that were involved with fake stocks and bonds. They discovered that government officials were bribing businesses.

The city of Las Vegas has changed rapidly from becoming a beautiful city to a violent place to live in. The city has seemed a rise in homicides as well in the last few years. The strong presences of these gangs are taking innocent lives and making the community a harder place to raise a family in. Many of the gangs in Vegas account for most the drug trade, as well as the staggering homicide rate. The gang problem is not only a problem in Las Vegas, but it is all over the world.

Police would rarely venture into the Bronx and some who did were kidnapped or killed. Nevertheless the Bronx was able to thrive as a drug hub because the criminals who ran it had up to 50 police officers on their payroll judicial sources have said. Officers were allegedly paid to turn a blind eye to illicit activities warn criminal groups of imminent security operations and refrain from searching the Bronx 's regular clients. Police witnesses have even accused former police station commander Gerardo Rivera. Also known as Verde 14 of faking anti-narcotics operations and ordering agents to hide the extent of criminal activity in the Bronx.Although the Bronx drug hub may have been suppressed it continues to cause headaches for the local government.

Wrongful convictions have plagued the world throughout history. When crimes are committed the public feels ascertain a way about the situation. Depending on the severity of the issues, the last thing the public wants is for the criminals to get away. The pressure intensifies to catch some one for the crime. The technology advancements alone have led to several cold cases freeing the wrongfully convicted.

To make matters was, Cuba was now steadily becoming a prominent gambling location, and many officials began stealing from treasury funds to cover debts and gambling expenses. Before 1825, embezzlement from Havana royal funds was sometimes prosecuted, but following the independence of a majority of Latin American countries, Spanish officials further repressed Cubans and enlarged an already overbearing military presence, leading to a complete disregard toward corruption. Santiago Treasury Offices, for example, fell to complete disarray following 1825 and local army battalions began to become victim to neglect with wages unpaid for months at a time (Quiroz 479). When officials were prosecuted for embezzlement, they were only barred from running for office again, rather than imprisoned or arrested. Corruption in the official treasury offices led to complete distrust of any elected officials, and therefore any respect.

As a result, the problem with the Teapot Dome Scandal was that after Harding’s administration became corrupt with bribery. The installment plan would have to be the most important aspect of the 1920s because it shows the beginning of an era where the people who once couldn’t have anything, now could have it all at the expense of paying a slower rate. This movement explains many of the faults in today’s economy and debt

When President Herbert Hoover, was in office a precipitous drop in the value of the U.S. stock market came crashing downward and signaled the start of the Great Depression. Due to the Jim Crow laws it was hard for even immigrants to survive the Great Depression. Upon this article it was “Around one third of Los Angeles’ Mexican population left the country, as did a third of Texas’ Mexican- born population” (Blakemore). During the years, Latino American’s had to fight to have the same equal right as American citizens. Even through “Mexican’s is willing to work for low wages, they help build the railroads in the 1930’s, American’s were and still is afraid, of foreigners stealing jobs” (Blakemore).

The prison-industrial complex is a corrupt political system that consists of overpowered politicians whose sole ambition is exploiting poor, uneducated, and under-privileged Americans to make money. Although, it wasn’t initially the purpose when Rockefeller started the war on drugs, but he started something bigger than he could’ve imagined at that time. The prison system has been proven to be ineffective, and costly waste of resources. However, it probably won’t be abolished due to the cash flow that it brings to some of the largest corporations in the

Throughout the last 10 years, the Mexican Government has declared war on all of Mexico’s drug cartels and is using every option to win the fight. One of these options includes the dangerous Mexican military, which has caused many more problems than they have solved during this drug war. The Mexican Government’s use of military force to stop the drug cartels is not appropriate as the death toll mounts, the military is abusing the citizens’ human rights, and the cartels rage against the military, which causes more violence in the streets. The Mexican military is increasing the death ratio much higher than previous years. This is clearly seen when usually the average injured to killed ratio is 1:4 because of the two armed groups fighting each

In the Rio Grande Valley, public corruption runs rampant. The border city of Mission is a hot spot for drug traffickers and has become an area of concern for the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program, also known as HIDTA, since the 1990s. Every day drug runners, private drug dealers, and the continuous flow of illegal immigrants create an atmosphere of temptation for law enforcement agents. Unfortunately, the small town of Mission has witnessed federal, state, and local law enforcement officers drift toward the dark side, letting temptation cast a shadow over their morals and beliefs. Recently, Mission Police Department officer, Hector Mendez, has been the latest addition to the dozens of people who stepped away from their mission

Another kind of corruption was people with monopoly would pay the government so they could do want they want or keep monopolizing. Monopolizing made Steffens used his investigating skills and saw that the government was corrupt and wrote about it. Progressive Era This was part of the progressive era. The progressive era was finding problem and trying to fix them. Steffens was a muckraker trying to fix the corrupt government.

Politics have had a major influence on crime and the criminal justice systems of countries around the world for centuries. Politics have lead to bribery, corruption, and deception in the criminal justice system. Although the amount of influence politics have on the criminal justice system has declined, politics can still be quite prevalent in modern criminal justice systems. One of the major ways politics influence the criminal justice system is with money. Money is a very powerful incentive for many people, including those working in the criminal justice system.

Gangsters’ main methods of gaining control were by instilling fear into local business; once people feared them they were able to exploit them. “By the 1920s, Americans had consumed over twenty-five million gallons of illegal liquor, and bootlegging became a one billion dollars business” As the bootlegging business blossomed, street gangs became established gangsters. With their new found wealth they were able to pay off law enforcement officials. Many law enforcement officials took the bribe, because they were underpaid and overworked. Not only did gangsters have money, they now had the power of the law which made running their operations less complicated.

Drug trafficking has a great power and influence over how many things function such as the economy, daily living, and politics, but could be combatted with different strategies such as legalisation. There has always been corruption, but because of drug