Posted on 09/27/2012 7:29:21 AM PDT by opentalk
The city may be nearly 2,000 miles from Mexico, but the country’s drug cartels are so deeply embedded in Chicago that local and federal law enforcement are forced to operate as if they are “on the border,” according to Jack Riley, special agent in charge for the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Because of Chicago’s location in the heart of the United States, its large Mexican population and its abundance of street gang activity, drug cartels have designated the city as one of its main hubs of operation in America, Riley told TheBlaze in an exclusive interview. Inevitably, the increasing presence of cartels has also contributed to the Windy City’s skyrocketing violent crime rates, the DEA boss revealed.
“My opinion is, right now, a number of the Mexican cartels are probably the most organized, well-funded, vicious criminal organizations that we’ve ever seen,” said Riley.
Right now, at least three major Mexican cartels are fighting for control of billions of dollars worth of marijuana, cocaine and heroin in Chicago. That includes the ruthless Zetas and the powerful Sinaloa cartel, run by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, arguably the most wanted man in North America, and perhaps the entire world.
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” Overall, police records indicate Chicago’s murder rate is up 31 percent from 2011
(old) Media ignores it. “
Every time.
Thanks, War On Drugs, for hyperinflating drug profits and restricting them to criminal hands so sociopathically violent Mexican cartels have the means and motive to wage war in our streets.
Exactly.
And it took them HOW LONG to figure this out and say something??? I could have told you that YEARS ago - before anyone even KNEW there was a man named Obama...
Thanks. I live in Chicago.
Classic example of the Frog and scorpion story...
The chicago political crime machine will eventually be replaced by the worst kind of crime machine...
Could not happen to more deserving bunch of thugs...
Could many of the guns be coming from Chicago?
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