Considerably the most popular TV series offered on Netflix ‘Narcos’ has culminated enormous attention and publicity with depicting past true events in the focus of a drama/documentary. We the audience are positioned in Columbia in the time between the 1970’s and 1990’s where the business of drug trafficking most notably the distribution of cocaine is at its peak. During events, the show establishes primary focus on detailing the time of when the Medellin Cartel ran by arguably the highest profiled criminal to ever live Pablo Escobar is at odds with forces of all law and order trying to stop him. With an intent not only to entertain, the series blends in actual footage of the same events being dramatized to remind the audience of the actual …show more content…
This is very important as though the narrator comes from the position of being a cop he admits himself that he has deviated from the viewpoint of being able to understand what is morally or lawfully just. Steve Murphy comments “the good guys are going to have to get their hands a little dirty, anyone who doubts this those who naively cling to the ideals of due process or rule of law haven’t spent enough time with the bad guys”. This quote becomes a major point in ‘Narcos’ to where we hold characters to a standard no longer based on their ethos but more so upon pathos. At consistent points in the series cops and agents are stuck in a dilemma with having no leads, facing casualties, or are under pressure to complete tasks with little time to spare. Thus, extreme measures are taken where law enforcement under certain “authority” use blackmail, extortion, bribery, or torture (waterboarding) to meet their goals in bringing down the drug cartel. With using such practices to meet their goals there is a great level of hypocrisy apparent where cops “enforcers of the law” will bend the rules to achieve so-called justice. All things considered what sets the stage for ‘Narcos’ is whether the ends justify the means and does the rule of law provide for a fair and balanced depiction of what …show more content…
On many occasions, the main characters DEA Agents Steve Murphy and Javier Pena throughout their endeavor to hunt and kill Pablo Escobar come to the sobering truth no matter if they complete their mission will it change the dynamic of the drug trade. As for how can you possibly stop a product’s who supply creates its own demand. If in the possibility if we are strictly bout hunting down drug kingpins does the saying get brought up where by cutting the head off the snake all that will occur is 2 will take its place. Thus, begging the real question is if the law cannot be regulated or even followed what is the point of administering it in the first
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Crank & Caldero (2004) discuss the notion of the noble cause that is widely used by police officers to justify their actions. Police officers feel that there are many obstacles that prevent them to do their job efficiently. They claim that courts only hinder the process of putting criminals behind bars. They also believe that they are true patriots with a noble cause of getting rid of bad guys. To further prove their point Crank & Caldero (2004) use works of many authors, who wrote about police ethics and corruption and about how the noble cause is interpreted by police officers. Each of the authors discusses a dilemma with which polices officers have to deal when deciding what action they need to take in order to deal with criminals. Cumulatively, it seems that police conduct themselves towards criminals and citizens with hostility and with actions that maybe constituted as unlawful and corruptive in nature. But to the police officers, who are seeking justice and are driven by a noble cause, all means are good to get the bad guys. There is also a philosophical twist that puts a poli...
I think this book should be required reading for any officer who wants to enforce illegal narcotics. It is an eye opening real account and both police supporters and critics have a lot to learn from Peter Moskos. The first step to healing our modern day police/public relation divide is ending this drug war and failed
According to Goldstein’s Tripartite model there are three major contributions to framing the drug-violence relation. The Mexican Drug Cartel they use the systemic model, it is within the context of supply and distribution that violence occurs in the drug trade. Violence is used to ensure protection and sharing of territories, sales, and stock. It is seen as an organizational management strategy. Violence is used by dealers and drug traffickers in retrieving debts owed to them.
Throughout the When I Wear My Alligator Boots ethnography, Muehlmann supports her main argument by describing key features associated with the formation of narco culture. Because their culture recognizes that the drug trafficking industry is a part of their cultural identity, they wanted to promote these sets of values and beliefs to other people. One of the most interesting things I have heard while reading the When I Wear My Alligator Boots ethnography is the different roles men and women have in the narco culture of their communities. The media does not report on the everyday lives of ordinary people living in drug trafficking communities because the media is concerned with coverage of famous drug lords who use violent tactics on innocent people to protect their drug trafficking endeavors.
Crime is a part of society encompases the news and the public. A variety of studies of media content have estimated that as much as 25 percent of the daily news is devoted to crime (Surette 1992) and that crime is the largest major category of stories in the print and electronic media (Chermak 1994, 103). (Lawrence 18). With crime at an all time high, police are constantly having to deal with more and more issues. This can lead to stressed out and fed up officers, which can lead to poor decisions by an officer. The use of force by police is a highly controversial topic as it raises questions about a government’s ability to use force against its citizens (Lawrence 19). Today’s society is caught up on the ideals of civility and equality before the law, making police use of force a touchy
Our economic statue tells us that a supply rapidly grows up to meet a demand. But if the demand is widespread then suppression is useless. It is harmful to society because since by raising the price of the drug in question, it raises the profits of middlemen, which gives them an even more powerful drug to stimulate demand further. The vast profits to be made from cocaine and heroin, which would be cheap and easily affordable, even by the poorest in affluent societies if they were legal. Besides, it is well known the illegality in itself has attraction for youth already inclined to disaffection.
Drug trafficking has been a massive concern between the borders of Mexico and the U.S. “since mid 1970s” (Wyler, 1). Drug trafficking is “knowingly being in possession, manufacturing, selling, purchasing, or delivering an illegal, controlled substance” (LaMance, 1). A dynamic relationship exists amongst Columbia, Mexico, and the U.S. the informal drug trafficking economy. This growing informal drug economy leads to many individuals creating a substantial living through this undercover market. These individual drug cartels monopolizing the trafficking market are a growing problem for the U.S economy and need to be located and controlled. If this trafficking continues, the U.S. informal economy will crush the growth of legal industries. The trafficking and abuse of drugs in the U.S. affects nearly all aspects of consumer life. Drug trafficking remains a growing issue and concern to the U.S. government. The U.S. border control must find a way to work with Mexico to overpower the individuals who contribute to the drug trafficking business. This market must be seized and these individuals must be stopped.
As taught in the lectures, it is impossible for police officers to win the war against crime without bending the rules, however when the rules are bent so much that it starts to violate t...
Concerned authorities have focused essentially on criminalization and punishment, to find remedies to the ever-increasing prevalent drug problem. In the name of drug reducing policies, authorities endorse more corrective and expensive drug control methods and officials approve stricter new drug war policies, violating numerous human rights. Regardless of or perhaps because of these efforts, UN agencies estimate the annual revenue generated by the illegal drug industry at $US400 billion, or the equivalent of roughly eight per cent of total international trade (Riley 1998). This trade has increased organized/unorganized crime, corrupted authorities and police officials, raised violence, disrupted economic markets, increased risk of diseases an...
One of the most obvious reasons why drugs are still around is because it is such a profitable business. In our society, marijuana, cocaine, xanax, and ecstasy are convenient and readily available to purchase almost anywhere you go. Those who sell drugs can make anywhere from five hundred to three thousand dollars a day. This income is tax-free and requires little to no labor efforts whatsoever. Those involved in this lucrative trade are taking somewhat of a risk, but because dealing drugs is so common in our society the chances of getting caught aren’t as high as expected. Drug trafficking alone serves for about 40 percent of all organized crime activity with this number increasing everyday as drugs become more and more popular. With the economy being so bad most find it easy to turn to selling drugs as an acceptable mean of income.
Drug trafficking is a prohibited, global trade that involves the production, the distribution, and the sales of drugs. It is a topic that has become a very large issue all over the world. It also has had a very big effect on many different countries because they often depend on the business that the drug trafficking creates. Since it has become such a problem, there have been many different efforts to put a stop to drug trafficking by different enforcement agencies. A website about drug statistics, drugabuse.net, indicated that the Drug Enforcement Agency or DEA, as it is well known as, makes over thirty thousand arrests each year dealing with the illegal sales or distribution of drugs. It is also believed that Mexico’s economy would shrink by over sixty-three percent if they lost their drug trafficking industry. There are many different tribulations like this that drug trafficking has created. Many people see it as such a vital asset to some countries, so it has emerged as an extremely big business that brings in a boatload of money. Just like any other immense problem, drug trafficking has its causes and effects
I. Introduction and Background The film Cartel Land, directed by Matthew Heineman, is an on-the-ground look at the effects the Mexican drug cartels have had on everyday life, both through the lens of a doctor turned militiaman in Michoacán, Mexico and a former veteran and ex-drug addict turned vigilante. These characters, while being sympathetic due to their foibles, point to a larger issue of lawlessness and the chasm that arises when state action engenders disdain. The purpose of this review will be to look in depth into the film’s motifs of order arising from chaos, and how the heavy handed approach of the government may spur cartels and paramilitary organizations into action.
This failure is due in large part, Benson and Rasmussen explain, to drug entrepreneurs’ adoption of new production techniques, new products, and new marketing strategies in response to greater law enforcement. Their “innovations” include lengthening the drug distribution chain and using younger drug pushers and runners (to reduce the risk of arrest and punishment), increasing domestic drug production (to avoid the risk of seizure at the border), smuggling into the country less marijuana and more cocaine (which is harder to detect), development of “crack” cocaine (a low-cost substitute for higher priced powdered cocaine and for marijuana, which the drug war made harder to obtain), and development of drugs with greater potency (because they are less bulky and because punishment is based on a drug’s weight, not its potency).
The police are offered either money or death, so some officers have no other choice than being corrupt. The system’s ability to effectively handle crimes not related to drug trafficking can be harmed, leading to higher levels of crime and violence not related to drugs. The existence of police members involved in drug trafficking makes the people not trust the criminal justice system, furthermore questioning if the law should even be respected if their own police is not respecting the human rights. Also, this increases corruption in the systems creating chaos in countries and