In many countries, this has led to extra law-enforcement costs and overflowing prisons. Many of these officers take advantage of the fact that they are the ones who seize the drugs when offenders are captured. "The only way to gain a market share of the business is to make a deal with the existing drug dealers or to gun some of them down in a "turf fight." The only way to stay outside the hands of the law is to pay bribe money to law-enforcement agents and government officials or set an example for the others by occasionally killing one of them." Like the case for the Guatemala's national police chief and the country's top anti-narcotics official who have been arrested in connection with the drug trade. They were arrested and charged in connection with a shooting last year over some stolen cocaine that left five police officers dead.(http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/03/04/guatemala.officials/index.html)This kind of corruption makes up not able to trust the vary people who are suppose to stop the illegal activity that is making billions of dollars. Instead they are prospering off of the fact that they confiscated these drugs legally. Then go and do illegal activities by reselling them.
Even activities were the drug lord is going to be captured or messes up the investigation on him by killing officers. Which was the case for the director of the Office for Combatting Drug Trafficking, was gunned down in his sport utility vehicle by two people on a motorcycle.(http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/12/08/honduras.drug.chief.slain/index.html#cnnSTCText) A person died at the hands of organized crime because of his job. However, he knew that kind of danger involved in organized crime.
Mexican authorities were searching for two politicians accused of belonging to the Familia Michoacana drug cartel, which is blamed for killing more than 30 federal police officers in a series of attacks.(http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/07/15/mexico.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText)Even government officials are involved in the illegal activities that go on in the drug trade. Government officials are involved in corrupt practices all over the world, in the drug trade. They are helping drug king pins or taking over for themselves. “Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.”(Benjamin Franklin)
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