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are paid off with cocaine instead of money, giving the Mexican groups themselves an ample supply for processing into crack. The trafficking system is highly functional too; "Mexican DTOs employ brokers based in Arizona, southern California, and south Texas to transport cocaine from the Southwest Border area to Chicago"(NDIC, 2001, p.9).

It is evident that the business of trafficking illegal drugs continues to be a problem for law enforcement officials and members of the public. Chicago, like Little Rock, has a high rate of violent crime, a growing number of students abusing and becoming addicted to crack cocaine, and an alarming number of babies being born who test positive for the substance. Sadly, the situation is expected to become worse before it gets better, but how much worse? Being a central hub of the United States, there seems to be no remedy at all for this disastrous trend; for Illinois anyway.

Reference

National Drug Intelligence Center. (2003). Arkansas Drug Threat Assessment. Retrieved March 2009, from United States Department of Justice: http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs 6/6184/6184p.pdf

National Drug Intelligence Center. (2001). Illinois Drug Threat Assessment. Retrieved March 2009, from United States Department of Justice: http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs /652/652p.pdf

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