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NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER'S LUNCHEON / STATE ROOM
JANUARY 25, 1990 / 1:15 P.M.
It's AN HONOR TO HAVE YOU HERE. THERE MAY BE NO
GROUP IN AMERICA MORE AWARE OF THE CHALLENGES THIS
COUNTRY IS FACING. So I DECIDED TO FOCUS ON THE FIRST
ITEM ON THE DOMESTIC AGENDA. ILLEGAL DRUGS. THEY
REMAIN THIS NATION'S NUMBER ONE CONCERN. TODAY I'D
LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THE SECOND PHASE OF OUR FIGHT AGAINST
DRUGS.
- 2 -
As YOU KNOW, LAST SEPTEMBER, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
THIS COUNTRY'S d Rish HISTORY, WE LAUNCHED A COMPREHENSIVE,
COORDINATED, COHERENT NATIONAL STRATEGY, TO STOP THE
DISTRIBUTION AND USE OF ILLEGAL DRUGS.
WE'VE MADE SOME NOTABLE PROGRESS IN THE MONTHS
SINCE THAT PLAN WAS UNVEILED. ATTITUDES CONTINUE TO
CHANGE.
HERE IN WASHINGTON, THE NUMBER OF THOSE ARRESTED WHO
TEST POSITIVE FOR DRUGS HAS DROPPED DRAMATICALLY OVER
THE PAST THREE MONTHS -- ESPECIALLY AMONG you JUVENILES.
AND ABROAD, COLOMBIA HAS EXTRADITED 14 OF THE WORLD'S
MAJOR DRUG MERCHANTS TO STAND TRIAL HERE. in th n.S.
BUT GIVEN THE HEADLINES WE'VE SEEN RECENTLY, IT'S
CLEAR WE'RE ONLY seally GETTING STARTED. And THE PLAN WE LAID OUT
LAST FALL OUTLINED WHAT WE INTEND TO DO.
- 4 -
TODAY I WANT TO ANNOUNCE THE SECOND PHASE OF OUR
STRATEGY -- WHICH EXPLAINS HOW WE INTEND TO DO IT.
AGENCY BY AGENCY, TASK BY TASK, DOLLAR BY DOLLAR.
And TODAY, WE'RE RELEASING A BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS.
what I Hoth of
OUR OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR FOR DRUG CONTROL POLICY,
BILL BENNETT, WILL DISCUSS THE PROGRAM LATER, IN DEPTH.
RIGHT NOW I WANT TO SKETCH OUT A FEW HIGHLIGHTS -- AND
THEN OPEN THE FLOOR TO QUESTIONS.
- 5 -
OUR APPROACH REMAINS CONSISTENT. WE'RE COMMITTED
TO THE SAME AGGRESSIVE GOALS AND PRINCIPLES WE OUTLINED
LAST SEPTEMBER: TO REDUCE USE, THROUGH AN INTEGRATED
MIX OF SUPPLY- AND DEMAND-SIDE APPROACHES. AND THAT
MEANS DOING EVERYTHING THAT WORKS.
OUR STRATEGY CALLS FOR ABOUT A THIRD OF ITS FUNDING
TO GO TOWARD DRUG EDUCATION, PREVENTION, TREATMENT, AND
RESEARCH.
- 6 -
WE'RE CALLING FOR MORE PREVENTION PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS
AND WORKPLACES -- AS WELL AS GRANTS FOR COMMUNITIES TO
SET UP EDUCATION PROGRAMS. IN OUR TREATMENT
STRATEGIES, WE'RE ALSO EMPHASIZING WHAT WORKS -- WITH
CAREFUL AND CONSTANT EVALUATION OF TREATMENT REGIMES,
AND A NEW OFFICE FOR TREATMENT IMPROVEMENT AT H.H.S.
I -
WE'RE FUNDING NEW RESEARCH -- IN AREAS LIKE LAW
ENFORCEMENT TECHNOLOGY, TREATMENT, AND DRUG USE
FORECASTING THAT WILL HELP US SPOT TRENDS, TARGET
RESOURCES, AND MEASURE THE IMPACT OF OUR STRATEGIES.
AND THIS SPRING, WE'LL BE RELEASING THE FIRST OF AN
ANNUAL, STATE-BY-STATE STATUS REPORT, MEASURING
PROGRESS.
ROUGHLY ANOTHER THIRD OF THE BUDGET IS DEVOTED TO
DOMESTIC ENFORCEMENT, PROSECUTION, AND INCARCERATION.
- 8 -
To HELP LOCAL ENFORCEMENT INITIATIVES, THE '91 FISCAL
BUDGET CALLS FOR NEARLY 500 MILLION DOLLARS FOR STATE
AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT GRANTS -- AN INCREASE OF 228
PERCENT OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS. WE WANT TO GET THE
RIGHT RESOURCES, TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE, ON THE RIGHT
LEVEL: STREET LEVEL.
TODAY WE'LL BE ANNOUNCING FIVE HIGH INTENSITY DRUG
TRAFFICKING AREAS -- CITIES AND AREAS THAT ARE ALREADY
DOING A GREAT DEAL, BUT NEED MORE SUPPORT.
- 9 -
WE WANT TO HELP THEM MAP OUT A MORE COMPREHENSIVE,
COORDINATED APPROACH TO FIGHT DRUGS.
WE'RE ALSO INCREASING THE NUMBER OF DEA AND FBI
AGENTS AND PERSONNEL, AS WELL AS MORE FUNDING FOR
ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEYS. WE SUPPORT AN INCREASE IN
FEDERAL JUDGESHIPS.
- 10 -
WE ARE PROPOSING THE DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG KINGPINS,
AND THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR DRUG-RELATED KILLINGS, AND
EVEN, IN SOME CASES, ATTEMPTED KILLINGS. WE WANT THERE
TO BE ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT ABOUT THE CERTAINTY OF
PUNISHMENT.
The FINAL THIRD OF OUR BUDGET IS EARMARKED FOR
BORDER INTERDICTION AND INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS.
- 11 -
WE WANT THE MULTINATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT
PRODUCE AND DISTRIBUTE DRUGS TO BE MORE THAN
DISRUPTED -- WE INTEND TO SEE THEM DISMANTLED AND
DESTROYED -- BECAUSE WE DON'T MAKE DEALS WITH the DEALERS. all
WE HAVE MULTI-LATERAL PROGRAMS UNDERWAY IN MANY
PARTS OF THE WORLD. THROUGHOUT CENTRAL AND SOUTH
AMERICA PARTICULARLY, WE ARE ENGAGED IN EXPANDED -- AND
UNPRECEDENTED -- LEVELS OF COOPERATION AND ASSISTANCE.
- 12 -
verbilio
WE APPLAUD THE EFFORTS OF PRESIDENT BARCO OF COLOMBIA,
Oar refer
AND PRESIDENT SALINAS OF MEXICO. AND I WILL REINFORCE
OUR SUPPORT FOR THE COURAGEOUS LEADERS OF THE REGION,
AT THE UPCOMING Any SUMMIT IN COLOMBIA.
of Castaqua
AMONG THE STEPS WE'RE TAKING TO INTENSIFY BORDER
CONTROL, UP TO AN ADDITIONAL 1000 CUSTOMS AGENTS -- WHO
ARE ALREADY ON THE JOB -- WILL BE GIVEN AUTHORITY TO
CONDUCT DRUG INVESTIGATIONS, TO BETTER ASSIST THE DRUG
ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION.
- 13 -
WITH INTERDICTION IN PARTICULAR, COORDINATION IS absolite
CRUCIAL. WE ARE PUTTING & END TO TURF BATTLES.
OUR BUDGET FOR ALL INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES HAS
INCREASED FROM 419 MILLION DOLLARS TO NEARLY 700
MILLION DOLLARS. WE'RE CREATING A NEW NATIONAL DRUG
INTELLIGENCE CENTER, TO ENSURE ALL ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES
GET THE STRATEGIC AND ORGANIZATIONAL INTELLIGENCE THEY
NEED.
- 14 -
TREASURY'S NEWLY-CREATED FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT
NETWORK WILL IMPROVE FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE. AND THE
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE HAS BEEN INCREASINGLY EFFECTIVE
IN ITS EXPANDED DETECTION AND MONITORING ROLE.
Now, I IMAGINE THE "NEWS" IN THIS CHAPTER OF THE
WAR ON DRUGS MAY BE ITS PRICE TAG. SPENDING
a lot of a
UNDERSTANDABLY GETS ATTENTION. IN THIS CASE, OUTLAYS
CONTINUE TO INCREASE.
- 15 -
BUT I WANT TO EMPHASIZE OUR DETERMINATION TO WIN THIS
FIGHT drefrat -- WITHOUT ADDING TO THE BUDGET DEFICIT -- AND
YES, WITHOUT RAISING TAXES.
IN 1990 DRUG FUNDING TOTALED ALMOST NINE AND A HALF
BILLION DOLLARS -- THE LARGEST INCREASE IN HISTORY.
FUNDING FOR FISCAL '91 WILL BE EXPANDED BY MORE THAN
ONE BILLION, TO OVER TEN AND A HALF BILLION DOLLARS.
AND OUTLAYS WILL INCREASE 41 PERCENT THIS YEAR.
- 16 -
IN FACT, WITH THIS REQUEST THE FEDERAL DRUG BUDGET WILL
BE 69 PERCENT HIGHER THAN IT WAS WHEN I TOOK OFFICE IN
1989.
To THOSE WHO SAY OUR PROGRAM LOOKS TOP-HEAVY ON THE
INTERDICTION SIDE, REMEMBER THAT MANY OF THE EFFORTS TO
LIMIT SUPPLY ARE EXCLUSIVELY FEDERAL -- AND INHERENTLY
MORE EXPENSIVE THAN DEMAND REDUCTION. WE'RE WILLING TO
SPEND MORE TO LIMIT THE DRUG SUPPLY. SIMPLY PUT, WE'RE
WILLING TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES.
- 17 -
BUT THE REAL ISSUE, OF COURSE, IS NOT "HOW MUCH."
IT'S "HOW WELL." AND HERE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN
FEDERAL AND NATIONAL IS CRUCIAL. A TRULY NATIONAL DRUG
CONTROL STRATEGY DEMANDS THAT WE TAP RESOURCES OF EVERY
DESCRIPTION -- PUBLIC AND PRIVATE; CIVILIAN AND
MILITARY; LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL; VOLUNTEER,
PROFESSIONAL, AND PERSONAL.
- 18 -
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT A MAN NAMED JIM BURKE -- A
I from may of you
CORPORATE LEADER WHO'S BEEN APPLYING THE POWER OF THE
MEDIA TO "UNSELL" DRUGS, THROUGH THE MEDIA PARTNERSHIP
FOR A DRUG-FREE AMERICA: THE LARGEST VOLUNTEER PRIVATE
SECTOR AD CAMPAIGN SINCE THE WAR-BOND DRIVES OF WORLD
WAR II. His e-ergifed And Pei doing a saper gif
YOU'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH THEIR HARD-HITTING ADS TO
DISCOURAGE DRUG USE. MANY OF YOU ALREADY CONTRIBUTE
SPACE TO RUN THEM.
AND THAT'S SUPPORTING THE PARTNERSHIP'S CURRENT GOAL,
TO RAISE ONE MILLION DOLLARS A DAY IN ADVERTISING TIME
AND SPACE. EVERY DAY. FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS. A
REMARKABLE GOAL INDEED.
I KNOW THAT SOME OF YOU -- JOE WILLIAMS, OF THE
MEMPHIS COMMERCIAL APPEAL, TO TAKE A NOTABLE EXAMPLE --
AN
HAVE MADE THE PROMOTION OF VOLUNTEERISM AN IMPORTANT
Ship
PART OF YOUR NEWSPAPER'S MISSION. AND THAT'S ALSO very very
IMPORTANT.
- 20 -
A FREE PRESS HAS A RIGHT AND RESPONSIBILITY TO
REPORT AND COMMENT ON A NATION'S PROBLEMS. BUT YOUR
NEWSPAPERS MAY ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROGRESS OF THE
COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE, BY POINTING TO SOLUTIONS. AND
THERE MAY BE NO BETTER OUTLET FOR AMERICA'S VOLUNTEER
eFFORT
SPIRIT THAN SAVING THOSE BEING LOST TO DRUGS. It's TOO
EARLY TO TELL HOW OUR EFFORTS WILL BE JUDGED -- BUT IF
MORE CONCERNED AMERICANS BECOME INVOLVED AMERICANS, I
BELIEVE WE WILL SUCCEED.
- 21 -
As A NATION UNITED, I BELIEVE WE CAN TURN THE TIDE
OF DRUGS AWAY FROM AMERICA'S SHORES -- AND OUT OF HER
CHILDREN'S HANDS. [PAUSE...]
Now I'D LIKE TO OPEN UP THE FLOOR TO QUESTIONS AND
SUGGESTIONS -- ON ANY SUBJECT, OF COURSE, BUT
ESPECIALLY OUR FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS...
###
(Lange/Cawley)
January 23, 1989
7:00 P.M.
[PUBS.DOC]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER'S LUNCHEON
STATE ROOM
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1990
1:15 P.M.
It's an honor to have you here. There may be no group in
America more aware of the challenges this country is facing. So
my first thought was to give you a general outline of our agenda,
after the first year.
But I decided instead to focus on the first item on the
domestic agenda. Illegal drugs. They remain this nation's
number one concern. So I chose this forum to announce the second
phase of our fight against drugs.
As you know, last September, for the first time in this
country's history, we launched a comprehensive, coordinated,
coherent national strategy, to stop the distribution and use of
illegal drugs.
We've made some notable progress in the six months since
that plan was unveiled. Attitudes continue to change. Here in
Washington, the number of those arrested who test positive for
drugs has dropped dramatically over the past three months --
especially among juveniles. And abroad, Colombia has extradited
14 of the world's major drug merchants to stand trial here.
But given the headlines we've seen over the last six months,
it's clear we're only getting started. The plan we laid out last
fall outlined what we intend to do. Today I want to announce the
second phase of our strategy -- which explains how we intend to
2
do it. Agency by agency, task by task, dollar by dollar. Today,
we're releasing a blueprint for success.
Our outstanding Director for Drug Control Policy, Bill
Bennett, will discuss the program later, in depth. Right now I
want to sketch out a few highlights -- and then open the floor to
questions.
Our approach remains consistent. We're committed to the
same aggressive goals and principles we outlined last September:
to reduce use, through an integrated mix of supply- and demand-
side approaches. And that means doing everything that works.
Our strategy calls for about a third of its funding to go
toward drug education, prevention, treatment, and research.
We're calling for more prevention programs in schools and
workplaces -- as well as grants for communities to set up
education programs. In our treatment strategies, we're also
emphasizing what works -- with careful and constant evaluation of
treatment regimes, and a new Office of Treatment Improvement at
H.H.S.
We're funding new research -- in areas like law enforcement
technology, treatment, and drug use forecasting that will help us
spot trends, target resources, and measure the impact of our
strategies. And this spring, we'll be releasing the first of an
annual, state-by-state status report, measuring progress.
Roughly another third of the budget is devoted to domestic
enforcement, prosecution, and incarceration. To help local
enforcement initiatives, the '91 fiscal budget calls for nearly
3
500 million dollars for state and local law enforcement grants --
an increase of 228 percent over the last two years. We want to
get the right resources, to the right people, on the right level:
street level.
Today we'll be announcing five High Intensity Drug
Trafficking Areas -- cities and areas that are already doing a
great deal, but need more support. We want to help them map out
a more comprehensive, coordinated approach to fight drugs.
We're also increasing the number of DEA and FBI agents and
personnel, as well as more funding for Assistant U.S. Attorneys.
We support an increase in federal judgeships. We are proposing
the death penalty for drug kingpins, and those responsible for
drug-related killings, and even, in some cases, attempted
killings. We want there to be absolutely no doubt about the
certainty of punishment.
The final third of our budget is earmarked for border
interdiction and international operations. We want the
multinational criminal organizations that produce and distribute
drugs to be more than disrupted -- we intend to see them
dismantled and destroyed -- because we don't make deals with
dealers.
We have multi-lateral programs underway in many parts of the
world. Thoughout Central and South America particularly, we are
engaged in expanded -- and unprecedented -- levels of cooperation
and assistance. We applaud the efforts of President Barco of
Colombia, and President Salinas of Mexico. And I will reinforce
4
our support for the courageous leaders of the region, at the
upcoming summit in Colombia.
Among the steps we're taking to intensify border control,
upto
an additional 1000 Customs Agents -- who are already on the job
-- will be given authority to conduct arrest? drug investigations, to
better assist the Drug Enforcement Administration. With
interdiction in particular, coordination is crucial. We are
putting an end to turf battles.
Our budget for all international activities has increased
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from 300 million dollars to nearly 700 million dollars. We're
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creating a new National Drug Intelligence Center, to ensure all
enforcement agencies get the strategic and organizational
intelligence they need. Treasury's newly-created Financial
Crimes Enforcement Network will improve financial intelligence.
And the Department of Defense has been increasingly effective in
its expanded detection and monitoring role.
Now, I imagine the "news" in this chapter of the war on
drugs may be its price tag. Spending understandably gets
attention. In this case, outlays continue to increase. But I
want to emphasize our determination to win this fight -- without
adding to the budget deficit -- and yes, without raising taxes.
Fisc
In 1990 drug funding totaled almost nine and a half billion
dollars -- the largest increase in history. Funding for fiscal
carnes
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'91 will be expanded by more than one billion, to over ten and a
half billion dollars. And outlays will increase 41 percent this
year. In fact, with this request the Federal drug budget will be
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To those who say our program looks top-heavy on the
interdiction side, remember that many of the efforts to limit
supply are exclusively federal -- and inherently more expensive
than demand reduction. We're willing to spend more to limit the
drug supply. Simply put, we're willing to do whatever it takes.
But the real issue, of course, is not "how much." It's "how
well." And here the distinction between federal and national is
crucial. A truly National Drug Control Strategy demands that we
tap resources of every description -- public and private;
civilian and military; local, state, and federal; volunteer,
professional, and personal.
I know that some of you -- Joe Williams, of the Memphis
Commercial Appeal, to take a notable example -- have made the
promotion of volunteerism an important part of your newspaper's
mission. And that's important.
A free press has a right and responsibility to report and
comment on a nation's problems. But your newspapers may also
contribute to the progress of the communities they serve, by
pointing to solutions. And there may be no better outlet for
America's volunteer spirit than saving those being lost to drugs.
It's too early to tell how our efforts will be judged -- but
if more concerned Americans become involved Americans, I believe
we will succeed,
Today I'm particularly interested in your thoughts and
ideas. So I'd like to open up the floor to questions and
suggestions -- on any subject, of course, but especially our
fight against drugs
###
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(Lange/Cawley)
January 22, 1989
7:15 P.M.
[PUBS.DOC]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER'S LUNCHEON
STATE ROOM
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1990
1:15 P.M.
It's an honor to have you here. There may be no group in
America more aware of the challenges this country is facing. So
my first thought was to give you a general outline of our agenda,
after the first year.
But I decided to focus on the first item on the domestic
agenda. Illegal drugs remain this nation's number one concern,
and our top domestic priority. So this is a good forum to
announce the second phase of our fight against drugs.
As you know, last September, for the first time in this
country's history, we launched a comprehensive, coordinated,
coherent national strategy, to stop the distribution and use of
illegal drugs.
We've made some notable progress in the six months since
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But given the headlines we've seen over the last six months,
it's clear we're only getting started. The plan we laid out last
fall outlined what we intend to do. Today I want to announce the
second phase of our strategy -- which explains how we intend to
2
do it. Agency by agency, task by task, dollar by dollar. Today,
we're releasing a blueprint for success.
Our outstanding Director for Drug Control Policy, Bill
Bennett, will discuss the program later, in depth. Right now I
want to sketch out a few highlights -- and then open' the floor to
questions.
Our approach remains consistent. We're committed to the
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calling for more prevention programs in schools and workplaces --
as well as grants for communities to set up education programs.
In our treatment strategies, we're also emphasizing what
works -- with careful and constant evaluation of treatment
regimes, and a new Office of Treatment Improvement at H.H.S.
We're funding new research -- in areas like law enforcement
technology, treatment, and drug use forecasting that will help us
spot trends, target resources, and measure the impact of our
strategies. And this spring, we'll be releasing the first of an
annual, state-by-state status report, measuring progress.
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but need more support. We want to help them map out a more
comprehensive, coordinated approach to fight drugs.
We're also increasing the number of DEA and FBI agents and
personnel, as well as U.S. Attorneys. We support an increase in
federal judgeships. We're also calling for an expansion of the
death penalty for drug-related crimes. Apart from the severity
of punishment, we should no longer debate the certainty of
punishment.
The final third of our budget is earmarked for international
and overseas operations. We want the multinational criminal
organizations that produce and distribute drugs to be more than
disrupted -- we intend to see them dismantled and destroyed --
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And the Department of Defense has been effective in detection and
monitoring -- surpassing even our high expectations.
Now, I imagine the "news" in this chapter of the war on
drugs may be its price tag. Spending understandably gets
attention. In this case, outlays continue to increase. But I
want to emphasize our determination to win this fight -- without
adding to the budget deficit -- and yes, without raising taxes.
Our 1990 drug budget totalled almost eight $9.483.2 billion dollars
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Federal drug budget will be almost 70 percent higher than it was
when I took office last year.
To those who say our program looks top-heavy on the
interdiction side, remember that efforts to limit supply are
exclusively federal -- and inherently more expensive than demand
reduction. We're willing to spend more to limit the drug supply.
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But the real issue, of course, is not "how much. It's "how
well." And here the distinction between federal and national is
crucial. A truly National Drug Control Strategy demands that we
tap resources of every description -- public and private;
civilian and military; local, state, and federal; volunteer,
professional, and personal.
I know that some of you -- Joe Williams, of the Memphis
Commercial Appeal, to take a notable example -- have made the
promotion of volunteerism an important part of your newspaper's
mission. And that's important.
A free press has a right and responsibility to report and
comment on a nation's problems. But your newspapers may also
contribute to the progress of the communities they serve, by
pointing to solutions. And there may be no better outlet for
America's volunteer spirit than saving those being lost to drugs.
It's too early to tell how our efforts will be judged -- but
if more concerned Americans become involved Americans, I believe
we will succeed.
Today I'm particularly interested in your thoughts and
ideas. So I'd like to open up the floor to questions and
suggestions -- on any subject, of course, but especially our
fight against drugs
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(Lange/Cawley)
January 22, 1989
7:15 P.M.
[PUBS.DOC]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER'S LUNCHEON
STATE ROOM
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1990
1:15 P.M.
It's an honor to have you here. There may be no group in
America more aware of the challenges this country is facing. So
my first thought was to give you a general outline of our agenda,
after the first year.
But I decided to focus on the first item on the domestic
agenda. Illegal drugs remain this nation's number one concern,
and our top domestic priority. So this is a good forum to
announce the second phase of our fight against drugs.
As you know, last September, for the first time in this
country's history, we launched a comprehensive, coordinated,
coherent national strategy, to stop the distribution and use of
illegal drugs.
We've made some notable progress in the six months since
that plan was unveiled. Attitudes continue to change. Here in
Washington, the number of those arrested who test positive for
drugs has dropped dramatically over the past three months --
especially among juveniles. And abroad, Colombia has extradited
14 of the world S most mgn wanted drug merchants to stand trial here.
But given the headlines we've seen over the last six months,
it's clear we're only getting started. The plan we laid out last
fall outlined what we intend to do. Today I want to announce the
second phase of our strategy --- which explains how we intend to
2
do it. Agency by agency, task by task, dollar by dollar. Today,
we're releasing a blueprint for success.
Our outstanding Director for Drug Control Policy, Bill
Bennett, will discuss the program later, in depth. Right now I
want to sketch out a few highlights -- and then open the floor to
questions.
Our approach remains consistent. We're committed to the
same aggressive goals and principles we outlined last September:
to reduce use, through an integrated mix of supply- and demand-
side approaches. And that means doing everything that works.
Our strategy calls for about a third of its funding to go
toward education, prevention, treatment, and research. We're
calling for more prevention programs in schools and workplaces --
as well as grants for communities to set up education programs.
In our treatment strategies, we're also emphasizing what
works -- with careful and constant evaluation of treatment
regimes, and a new Office of Treatment Improvement at H.H.S.
We're funding new research -- in areas like law enforcement
technology, treatment, and drug use forecasting that will help us
spot trends, target resources, and measure the impact of our
strategies. And this spring, we'll be releasing the first of an
annual, state-by-state status report, measuring progress.
Another third of the budget is devoted to domestic and
border interdiction. To help local enforcement efforts, the '91
fiscal budget calls for nearly 500 million dollars for state and
local law enforcement -- an increase of 228 percent over the last
3
two years. We want to get the right resources, to the right
people, on the right level: street level.
Today we'll be announcing five High Intensity Drug
Trafficking Areas -- cities that are already doing a great deal,
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because we don't make deals with dealers.
So we're now engaged in expanded -- and unprecedented --
levels of cooperation and assistance, throughout Central and
South America. We applaud President Barco's efforts -- and I
will reinforce our support for the courageous leaders of the
region, at the upcoming summit in Columbia.
Among the steps we're taking to intensify border control,
1000 Customs Agents -- already on the job -- will be given arrest
and investigation authority formerly limited to D.E.A. agents.
4
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exclusively federal -- and inherently more expensive than demand
reduction. We're willing to spend more to limit the drug supply.
Simply put, we're willing to do whatever it takes.
5
But the real issue, of course, is not "how much. It's "how
well." And here the distinction between federal and national is
crucial. A truly National Drug Control Strategy demands that we
tap resources of every description -- public and private;
civilian and military; local, state, and federal; volunteer,
professional, and personal.
I know that some of you -- Joe Williams, of the Memphis
Commercial Appeal, to take a notable example -- have made the
promotion of volunteerism an important part of your newspaper's
mission. And that's important.
A free press has a right and responsibility to report and
comment on a nation's problems. But your newspapers may also
contribute to the progress of the communities they serve, by
pointing to solutions. And there may be no better outlet for
America's volunteer spirit than saving those being lost to drugs.
It's too early to tell how our efforts will be judged -- but
if more concerned Americans become involved Americans, I believe
we will succeed.
Today I'm particularly interested in your thoughts and
ideas. So I'd like to open up the floor to questions and
suggestions -- on any subject, of course, but especially our
fight against drugs
...
# # #
(Lange/Cawley)
January 19, 1989
5:00 P.M.
[PUBS.DOC]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER'S LUNCHEON
STATE ROOM
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1990
[TIME]
" Let me thank all of you for coming today. Before I get
started, let me point out that these remarks were not sold to me
by a speechwriter over in Lafayette Park
))
It's an honor to have you here. And while I'd like to
regale you with Presidential lore and wit, I want to turn to a
more serious subject.
It is a fact we may regret, but must admit I Illegal drugs
remain this nation's number one concern -- and our top domestic
priority.
So last September, for the first time in this country's
history, we launched a comprehensive, coordinated, coherent
strategy to stop the distribution and use of illegal drugs.
The strategy we laid out last fall outlined what we intend
to do. The second volume of our strategy, being released today,
explains in more detail how we intend to do it. Agency by
agency, task by task, dollar by dollar. Through a unified
approach to what you all understand is an enormously complex
problem.
Our outstanding Director for Drug Control Policy, Bill
Bennett, will discuss the program later, in depth. Right now I
want to sketch out just a few highlights, among the specifics of
our strategy -- then open the floor for questions.
Our approach remains consistent. We're committed to the
same agressive, intelligent goals and principles we outlined last
September: to reduce use, through an integrated mix of supply-
and demand-side approaches.
You've all endured the debate between demand- and supply-
side economics. Where drug policy is concerned, that debate
isn't science -- it's just dismal.
We think we're striking the right balance between supply-
and demand-side solutions -- because comparisons based on budget
bottom lines are misleading.
The funding we call for -- if you only look at the bottom
line -- suggests that we're devoting over 70 percent of our
efforts to supply reduction, and only 29 percent to demand
reduction.
Why? Because efforts to limit supply -- international
operations and interdiction on the high seas, for example -- are
intrinsically the domain of the federal government, and
inherently more expensive than demand reduction. So attacking
the problem effectively from both sides means spending more to
curb supply.
It does not, however, mean doing everything -- like engaging
in helpless debates over the manifestations and "root causes" of
drug abuse.
What it does mean, is doing everything that works. We're
still convinced there is no magic bullet -- that we have to move
aggressively from every angle.
So our strategy calls for about a third of its funding to go
toward education, prevention, and treatment; another third for
domestic and border interdiction; and a third for international
and overseas operations.
We've called for an increase in school workplace-based
prevention programs -- and grants for communities to establish
education and awareness efforts. State, local, and private
initiatives play a crucial role here.
In our treatment strategies, we're also emphasizing what
works -- through careful and constant evaluation, and a new
Office of Treatment improvement at H.H.S.
We're devoting special attention to treatment facilities in
state jails and prisons. We're especially concerned about
adolescents and pregnant women. And we've requested an extra six
million dollars to fight the haunting tragedy of cocaine-addicted
babies.
[graf on research, drug use forecasting]
To help enforcement efforts at street level, the '91 fiscal
budget calls for nearly 500 million dollars for state and local
law enforcement --- an increase of 228 percent over the last two
years.
[two-three grafs, international]
Now, I imagine the "news" in this chapter of the war on
drugs may be its price tag. Spending understandably gets
attention. In this case, it continues to increase. But I want
to emphasize our determination to win this fight -- without
adding to the budget deficit -- and yes, without raising taxes.
Our 1990 drug budget totalled almost eight billion dollars
-- the largest increase in history. Funding for fiscal '91 will
be expanded to over ten and a half billion dollars -- a 41
percent increase in one year.
But the real issue, of course, is not "how much. It's "how
well." And here the distinction between federal and national is
crucial.
No one should hope or expect that we're planning to solve
the drug problem simply with programs and pronouncements from the
shining city on the hill. Everyone needs to look for ways that
they -- as individuals and organizations -- fit into the picture.
A truly National Drug Control Strategy demands that we tap
resources of every description -- public and private; civilian
and military; local, state, and federal; volunteer, professional,
and personal.
I know that some of you -- Joe Williams, of the Memphis
Commercial Appeal, to take a notable example --- have made the
promotion of volunteerism an important part of your newspaper's
mission. And that's important.
A free press has -- as its right and responsibility -- the
obligation to uncover, report, and comment on a nation's
problems.
But a free press may also contribute to the progress of the
society it serves, by pointing to solutions. And there may be no
more crucial outlet for America's volunteer spirit, than
encouraging the people and the communities of this nation that
are being ravaged by drugs.
Ours may be an era of limited budgets -- but unlimited
resources.
If, as Ben Bradlee once said, "News is the first rough draft
of history," it's too early to tell how history will judge our
efforts to turn the tide of drugs away from America's shores --
and out of her childrens' hands.
But if Americans will join together in this struggle --
applying all the power of their hearts and minds -- I believe we
will succeed.
Today I'm particularly interested in your thoughts and
ideas. So I'd like to open up the floor to questions and
suggestions -- on any subject, of course, but especially our
fight against drugs
# # #
(Lange/Cawley)
January 22, 1989
5:30 P.M.
[PUBS.DOC]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER'S LUNCHEON
STATE ROOM
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1990
1:15 P.M.
(( Let me thank all of you for coming today. Before I get
started, let me point out that these remarks were not sold to me
by a speechwriter over in Lafayette Park
))
It's an honor to have you here. There may be no group in
America more aware of the challenges this country is facing. So
my first thought was to give you a general outline of our agenda,
after the first year.
But I decided to focus on the first item on the domestic
agenda. Illegal drugs remain this nation's number one concern,
and our top domestic priority. So I decided this would be the
right forum to announce the second phase of our fight against
drugs.
As you know, last September, for the first time in this
country's history, we launched a comprehensive, coordinated,
coherent national strategy, to stop the distribution and use of
illegal drugs.
We've made some notable progress in the six months since
that plan was unveiled. Here in Washington, the number of those
arrested who test positive for drugs has dropped dramatically
over the past three months -- especially among juveniles. And
abroad, last week Columbia has extradited 11 of the world's most-
2
wanted drug merchants, to stand trial here.
But given the headlines we've seen over the last six months,
it's clear we're only getting started. The plan we laid out last
fall outlined what we intend to do. Today I want to announce the
second phase of our strategy -- which explains how we intend to
do it. Agency by agency, task by task, dollar by dollar. Today,
we're releasing a blueprint for success.
Our outstanding Director for Drug Control Policy, Bill
Bennett, will discuss the program later, in depth. Right now I
want to sketch out just a few highlights and then open the
floor for questions.
Our approach remains consistent. We're committed to the
same agressive, intelligent goals and principles we outlined last
September: to reduce use, through an integrated mix of supply-
and demand-side approaches. And that means doing everything
that works. No miracle cures -- we're moving aggressively from
every angle.
Our strategy calls for about a third of its funding to go
toward education, prevention, treatment, and research. We're
calling for more prevention programs in schools and workplaces --
as well as grants for communities to establish education and
awareness efforts.
In our treatment strategies, we're also emphasizing what
works -- with careful and constant evaluation of treatment
regimes, and a new Office of Treatment improvement at H.H.S.
We're emphasizing new research -- in areas like law
3
enforcement technology, treatment, the causes of addiction,
and drug use forecasting that will help us spot trends, target
resources, and measure the impact of our strategies. And this
spring, we'll be releasing the first of an annual, state-by-state
status report, measuring progress.
Roughly another third of the budget is devoted to domestic
and border interdiction. To help local enforcement efforts, the
'91 fiscal budget calls for nearly 500 million dollars for state
and local law enforcement -- an increase of 228 percent over the
last two years. We want to get the right resources, to the right
people, on the right level: street level.
Today we'll be announcing five High Intensity Drug
Trafficking Areas -- cities that are already doing a great deal,
but need more support and leadership. We want to help them map
out a more comprehensive, coordinated approach to fight drugs.
Among the steps we're taking to intensify border control,
1000 Customs Agents -- already on the job will be cross-
designated with arrest and investigation authority formerly
limited to D.E.A. agents. With interdiction in particular,
coordination is crucial. We will fight no more turf battles,
forever.
We're also increasing the number of DEA and FBI agents and
personnel, as well as U.S. Attorneys. We support an increase in
federal judgeships. We're also calling for an expansion of the
death penalty for drug-related crimes. Apart from the severity
of punishment, we should no longer debate the certainty of
Tator 29020
4
punishment.
Finally, over a third of our budget is earmarked for
international and overseas operations. We want the multinational
criminal organizations that produce and distribute drugs to be
more than disrupted -- we intend to see them dismantled, and
destroyed, because we don't make deals with dealers.
So we're now engaged in expanded -- and unprecedented --
levels of cooperation and assistance, throughout Central and
South America. We applaud President Barco's efforts -- and I
will reinforce our support for the courageous leaders of the
region, at the upcoming summit in Columbia.
Our budget for cooperative law enforcement for all
international activities has increased from $295 million to over
$500 million. We're creating a new National Drug Intelligence
Center, to ensure all enforcement agencies get the strategic,
organizational, and financial intelligence they need. The
Department of Defense has been effective in detection and
monitoring beyond anyone's expections. And with the new
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network at Treasury, we intend to
send a message to money launderers everywhere: The wash cycle
just ended, and we're going to hang you out to dry.
Now, I imagine the "news" in this chapter of the war on
drugs may be its price tag. Spending understandably gets
attention. In this case, outlays continue to increase. But I
want to emphasize our determination to win this fight -- without
adding to the budget deficit -- and yes, without raising taxes.
5
Our 1990 drug budget totalled almost eight billion dollars
-- the largest increase in history. Funding for fiscal '91 will
be expanded to over ten and a half billion dollars -- a 41
percent increase in one year. In fact, the Federal drug budget,
with this request, will be almost 70 percent higher than it was
when I took office last year.
To those who say our program looks top-heavy on the
interdiction side, it's worth remembering that efforts to
limit supply are exclusively federal -- and inherently more
expensive than demand reduction. We're willing to spend more to
limit the drug supply -- because we're willing to do whatever it
takes.
But the real issue, of course, is not "how much.' It's "how
well." And here the distinction between federal and national is
crucial.
No one should hope or expect that we're planning to solve
the drug problem simply with programs and pronouncements from the
shining city on the hill. Everyone needs to look for ways that
they -- as individuals and organizations -- fit into the picture.
A truly National Drug Control Strategy demands that we tap
resources of every description -- public and private; civilian
and military; local, state, and federal; volunteer, professional,
and personal.
I know that some of you -- Joe Williams, of the Memphis
Commercial Appeal, to take a notable example -- have made the
promotion of volunteerism an important part of your newspaper's
6
mission. And that's important.
A free press has -- as its right and responsibility -- the
obligation to uncover, report, and comment on a nation's
problems.
But a free press may also contribute to the progress of the
society it serves, by pointing to solutions. And there may be no
more crucial outlet for America's volunteer spirit, than
encouraging the people and the communities of this nation that
are being ravaged by drugs.
Ours may be an era of limited budgets -- but unlimited
resources.
If, as Ben Bradlee once said, "News is the first rough draft
of history, it's too early to tell how history will judge our
efforts to turn the tide of drugs away from America's shores --
and out of her childrens' hands.
But if Americans will join together in this struggle --
applying all the power of their hearts and minds -- I believe we
will succeed.
Today I'm particularly interested in your thoughts and
ideas. So I'd like to open up the floor to questions and
suggestions -- on any subject, of course, but especially our
fight against drugs
# # #
(Lange/Cawley)
January 22, 1989
2:00 P.M.
[PUBS.DOC]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER'S LUNCHEON
STATE ROOM
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1990
1:15 P.M.
(( Let me thank all of you for coming today. Before I get
started, let me point out that these remarks were not sold to me
by a speechwriter over in Lafayette Park
))
It's an honor to have you here. There may be no group in
America more aware of the challenges this country is facing, than
you here today. So my first thought was to give you a general
outline of our agenda, after the first year.
But I decided to focus on the first item on the domestic
agenda. Illegal drugs remain this nation's number one concern,
and our top domestic priority. So I decided this would be the
right forum to announce the second phase of our fight against
drugs.
As you know, last September, for the first time in this
country's history, we launched a comprehensive, coordinated,
coherent national strategy, to stop the distribution and use of
illegal drugs.
We've made some notable progress in the six months since
that plan was unveiled. [[ A new Gordon Black poll, to be
released next week, shows that usage
. ]] Here in
Washington, the number of those arrested who test positive for
2
drugs has dropped dramatically over the past three months --
especially among juveniles. And last week, Columbia extradited
11 of the world's most-wanted drug merchants, to stand trial
here.
But given the headlines we've seen over the last six months,
it's clear we're only getting started. The plan we laid out last
fall outlined what we intend to do. Today I want to announce the
second phase of our strategy -- which explains how we intend to
do it. Agency by agency, task by task, dollar by dollar. Today
we're releasing a blueprint for success.
Our outstanding Director for Drug Control Policy, Bill
Bennett, will discuss the program later, in depth. Right now I
want to sketch out just a few highlights -- and then open the
floor for questions.
Our approach remains consistent. We're committed to the
same agressive, intelligent goals and principles we outlined last
September: to reduce use, through an integrated mix of supply-
and demand-side approaches.
And that means doing everything that works. No one who's
studied the problem believes there's a miracle cure out there --
so we're moving aggressively from every angle.
rell
Our strategy calls for about a third of its funding to go
toward education, prevention, treatment, and research. We're
calling for more prevention programs in schools and in the
workplace -- as well as grants for communities to establish
3
education and awareness efforts. State, local, and private
initiatives will continue to play a crucial role here.
In our treatment strategies, we're also emphasizing what
works -- through careful and constant evaluation of treatment
regimes, and a new Office of Treatment improvement at H.H.S.
We're devoting special attention to treatment facilities in state
jails and prisons. We're especially concerned about adolescents
and pregnant women. And we've requested an extra six million
dollars to fight the haunting tragedy of cocaine-addicted babies.
We're emphasizing new research -- in areas like law
enforcement technology, treatment, the causes of addiction,
and drug use forecasting that will help us spot trends, target
resources, and measure the impact of our strategies. And this
spring, we'll be releasing the first of an annual, state-by-state
status report, measuring progress.
Another third of the budget is devoted to domestic and
border interdiction. To help local enforcement efforts, the '91
fiscal budget calls for nearly 500 million dollars for state and
local law enforcement -- an increase of 228 percent over the last
two years. We want to get the right resources, to the right
people, on the right level: street level.
We're increasing the number of DEA and FBI agents and
personnel, as well as US Attorneys and federal judgeships.
borders, cross-desig.
And we're calling for an expansion of the death penalty for drug-
related crimes. It's time to get the focus
4
The final third of our budget is earmarked for international
and overseas operations. As you know, the international cartels
have a reputation for sophisticated hardware, marketing and
distribution networks. (( We are dealing with an industry that
pulls in billions of dollars a year -- and doesn't lose much time
doing tax returns. As Woody Allen might add, they also spend
very little on office supplies. ))
But
disproportionate benefits
Now, I imagine the "news" in this chapter of the war on
drugs may be its price tag. Spending understandably gets
attention. In this case, outlays continue to increase. But I
want to emphasize our determination to win this fight -- without
adding to the budget deficit -- and yes, without raising taxes.
Our 1990 drug budget totalled almost eight billion dollars
-- the largest increase in history. Funding for fiscal '91 will
be expanded to over ten and a half billion dollars -- a 41
percent increase in one year. In fact, the Federal drug budget,
5
with this request, will be almost 70 percent higher than it was
when I took office last year.
To those who say our program looks top-heavy on the
interdiction side, it's worth remembering that efforts to
limit supply are exclusively federal -- and inherently more
expensive than demand reduction. We're willing to spend more to
limit the drug supply -- because we're willing to do whatever it
takes.
But the real issue, of course, is not "how much. It's "how
well." And here the distinction between federal and national is
crucial.
No one should hope or expect that we're planning to solve
the drug problem simply with programs and pronouncements from the
shining city on the hill. Everyone needs to look for ways that
they -- as individuals and organizations -- fit into the picture.
A truly National Drug Control Strategy demands that we tap
resources of every description -- public and private; civilian
and military; local, state, and federal; volunteer, professional,
and personal.
I know that some of you -- Joe Williams, of the Memphis
Commercial Appeal, to take a notable example -- have made the
promotion of volunteerism an important part of your newspaper's
mission. And that's important.
A free press has -- as its right and I responsibility -- the
obligation to uncover, report, and comment on a nation's
problems.
6 /
But a free press may also contribute to the progress of the
society it serves, by pointing to solutions. And there may be no
more crucial outlet for America's volunteer spirit, than
encouraging the people and the communities of this nation that
are being ravaged by drugs.
Ours may be an era of limited budgets -- but unlimited
resources.
If, as Ben Bradlee once said, "News is the first rough draft
of history," it's too early to tell how history will judge our
efforts to turn the tide of drugs away from America's shores --
and out of her childrens' hands.
But if Americans will join together in this struggle --
applying all the power of their hearts and minds -- I believe we
will succeed.
Today I'm particularly interested in your thoughts and
ideas. So I'd like to open up the floor to questions and
suggestions -- on any subject, of course, but especially our
fight against drugs
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Director of Budget and Planning
Frank Kalder
673-2624
Carnes' assistant
Daniel Casse
673-2830
Don Hamilton
673-2823
Bennett's Press Secretary
David Tell
Judge Reggie Walton
673-2444
Director, State & Local Affairs
Dr. Herb Cleber
673-2810
Deputy Director of Demand Reduction
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Kathleen Shaw
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AMERICA, MOBILIZING AGAINST ILLEGAL DRUGS
AND READY TO DO MUCH MORE.
Summary of research conducted by Gordon S. Black Corporation
-810 National Sample Phone Interviews
1/12/90
1.
How serious is the illegal drug problem in your community?
Very
Somewhat
46% 38% 384%
Not Very
12%
Not At All
3%
2.
Are you aware of anti-drug programs in your community?
Yes
57%
No
43%
3.
Are programs? you or anyone in your family involved in volunteer anti-drug
Yes
10%
No
90%
4.
Who sponsors the program?
School
38%
Civic/Gov't
28%
Church
Other
20% 10%
5.
drugs? How much progress do you feel has been made combatting illegal
Community
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Some
45% 351% 6%
44% 8% 2,52%
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33%
36%
None
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take to reduce illegal drug use by 75%?
3 years
5%
5
15%
10
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15
10%
20
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20+
15%
Never
14%
7.
Do you know someone who uses illegal drugs?
Yes
36%
No
63%
8.
Do you know somebody from whom you could get illegal drugs?
Yes
22%
No
76%
8.
drugs? Should police make major effort to arrest those who buy/use illegal
(-not"sell"..)
Yes
84%
No
13%
9.
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stop the sale and use of illegal drugs in your community?
Yes
60%
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34%
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to stop the use of illegal drugs?
Yes
No
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level.
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68%
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19%
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Newsweek America's New Alcatraz
January.15, 1990:$2.00
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The federal prison in Marion, III., the nation's
most secure pen, holds hard men doing hard time
BY CHRISTOPHER DICKEY
years." Noriega may spend the immediate
future closer to the Miami courtroom
where his case will be heard, possibly on a
black box over his handcuffs
A
military base. But eventually, says a prison
keeps the inmate from picking
administrator, "we'll get him."
the locks. Chains lead through it,
The men at Marion have been classified
wrapped and padlocked around
by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as the
his waist. Shackles hobble his
most dangerous, the most escape-prone, the
feet. But even so three guards surround
most threatening or, in many cases, the
him as he walks down the long hall from
most threatened people in the federal pris-
the cellblock to the visiting room. Each
on system. More than half the states in the
guard carries a yard-long black stick made
union and the District of Columbia also
of sturdy plastic tipped with steel bearings.
send problem prisoners here. Guards like to
"Rib spreaders," one explains. "We use 'em
say the inmates are the worst of the worst,
'Big Brother is always watching': It could be a
coll
as prods. They separate the ribs without
all the rotten apples put in one barrel: 98
breaking them."
percent have some history of violence; 51
This, sooner or later, will likely be Ma-
Marion is about movement. If an inmate
percent are convicted murderers. The aver-
nuel Noriega's new home: the United
refuses to move, a specially trained five-
age sentence is 39.5 years. Among the in-
States Penitentiary at Marion, Ill. It is the
man unit in riot helmets and flak jackets
mates in the underground K-Unit are two of
most rigidly controlled prison in the Unit-
America's most famous spies: John Walker
enters his cell. Each is assigned a body part:
ed States, the institution that took over
and Jonathan Pollard. With them there are
an arm, a leg, the waist. They take him
where Alcatraz left off. Only rarely are
down, chain him and carry him out. But
Edwin P. Wilson, convicted of supplying
prisoners sent here before they're convict-
most of the 430 inmates don't move very
arms to Muammar Kaddafi; Joseph Paul
ed. But a few exceptions have been made
much at all. They are confined to their cells
Franklin, a racist serial murderer; Bernard
for chieftains of the cocaine cartels consid-
Welch, a cat burglar, murderer, escape art-
for 22 hours a day. It has been that way,
ered too famous and too dangerous to hold
now, for six years.
ist and government informer, and Garrett
anywhere else. Carlos Lehder, the master
"It's changed a bunch," says Mike Ralls,
Trapnell, who hijacked a plane 18 years ago
smuggler of the Medellín gang, was held in
a guard with the good-ole-boy drawl of
to free black activist Angela Davis from
Marion before he was convicted. Now he is
southern Illinois, peering out from behind
prison. She was released. He is still inside.
back, serving a sentence of "life plus 135
a thin beard and big aviator glasses. He was
The first lesson any prisoner learns at
here when the inmates ran riot, murdering
SYGMA
AP
DENNIS COOK-AP
Carlos Lehder
DENNIS COOK-AP
Christopher Boyce
BOB DAUGHTRY-AP
Edwin P. Wilson
Life plus 135 years for
Jonathan Pollard
The Falcon did part of
John Walker Jr.
the Colombian drug
He ran guns for Libya's
his 65-year sentence in
An intelligence analyst
He sold Navy secrets
smuggler
Kaddafi. He faces up to 52
who spied for Israel, he's
Marion
years behind bars.
to the Soviets; he may
serving a life sentence
never leave Marion
66
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JANUARY 15, 1990
be a
college campus except for the guard towers, the fences and the rolls of coiled razor wire along the perimeter
LARRY DOWNING-NEWSWEEK
each other virtually at will. He was here
the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has never had to
when two guards were stabbed to death in
institution. It offered everything from col-
face before. "A few years ago," says Hen-
one day. One was slashed 40 times. That
lege-level courses to putt-putt golf. And it
man, "you had to worry about inmates get-
was in October 1983, when the "lockdown"
gave its prisoners relative freedom inside
ting out. Now you have to worry about
keeping the prisoners confined in their
its fences. But in 1979, mainly because of its
people trying to get in."
cells began. It has never ended. With a
small size, Marion was declared the only
Lehder, who once shipped cocaine to the
succession of court decisions to support it,
level 6 "supermaximum" security institu-
United States by the ton from his mansion
probably it never will. Marion is becoming
tion in the federal system. Gradually, in-
on Bahama's Norman's Cay, is now in the
a model for high-security state prisons
mates labeled too dangerous or too difficult
number-one cell of G-Unit serving a sen-
across the country. But there is always an
for level 5 prisons like Lompoc or Leaven-
tence of life plus 135 years. He put a towel
underlying tension. "If they ever opened
worth were transferred to Marion. The
over the port at the top of his cell door
this place up again, there's no tellin' what
death toll began to rise. From February
when a reporter approached. According to
would happen," says Ralls. "It's been down
1980 to October 1983 nine inmates were
other inmates and guards, he is busy
too long. Too much gone on."
killed and two guards were murdered.
studying German; he apparently believes
Adding to this remarkable mix are the
There were 10 riots, 57 serious assaults,
that he will go to Germany soon. But no-
"separatees," inmates who might kill one
33 attacks on staff. Since the lockdown,
body at the prison is sure why, or how.
another if placed together. Normally they
no staff members have died. Only five in-
Wild life: The Marion defenses are one
are kept in different institutions. But at
mates have been murdered. "They don't
part Swiss Army, one part Wild West. Ev-
Marion, there are 150 sets of them. There
have to worry about protecting their
eryone has a role: the secretaries have been
are leaders of rival prison gangs known as
backs," says Henman. "Big Brother is al-
trained to use the prison's rifles-M-14s
the Aryan Brotherhood, the Mexican Ma-
ways watching."
and M-1 carbines-if an assault begins. But
fia, the D.C. Blacks. There are five surviv-
"Every day that goes by," says Henman,
Henman denies reports that antiaircraft
ing members of The Order, a racist right-
"and no inmate or staff member is serious-
batteries of some sort are positioned on the
wing group that robbed banks, pulled
ly hurt, we've accomplished our mission."
grounds. "We don't have any missiles or
armored-car heists and murdered Denver
For those who behave for a year or more,
heat-seeking rockets out there," he says,
talk-show host Alan Berg in 1984.
there is the promise of gradually improved
looking at the tree line only a few hundred
Warden Gary Henman, who ran Marion
conditions: more personal possessions al-
yards away. "I wish to hell we did."
until his transfer this month to Leaven-
lowed in the cells; an hour or two more of
Set at the edge of a wildlife refuge, 100
worth, saw the arrival of the cartel with
recreation time. After two years or more,
miles southeast of St. Louis, the complex
Lehder and Juan Ramón Matta Balles-
there is a chance to go to the "pretransfer
looks like a junior college except for the
teros in the late 1980s. "Any of the real
unit" and from there to another, less re-
towers, and the fences, and the glistening
kingpins eventually will end up here," he
strictive prison such as Leavenworth. But
cascade of tiny, deadly blades, 13 rolls of
said in a recent interview, and that had
make a mistake and you wind up back at
coiled razor wire, along the perimeter.
him worried. At the cartel's command are
the beginning of "the program," or worse,
Marion was built in 1963, the year Alcatraz
in the cells of The Hole.
resources—money, men, weapons-which
closed, as the very model of a modern penal
Each cell in the Disciplinary Segregation
NEWSWEEK JANUARY 15, 1990 67
Unit, the Hole, is 7 feet by 9 feet. The bed is
The cells are searched often, and any
a concrete slab. Two shelves can hold a
the inmates have tested positive for the
prisoner who leaves the penitentiary for
handful of clothes and a couple of books. A
AIDS virus. Those men-one of whom bit a
any reason is searched in every orifice when
seamless, stainless-steel unit holds a toilet
guard in another institution-are left iso-
he gets back. X-rays can be requested in-
and a sink. A small mirror, about four inch-
lated, like everyone else. If they develop
stead of the manual "finger wave," but the
es square, is set in the wall. The view from
AIDS symptoms they're rewarded with a
prison reserves the right to manual exami-
each isn't much better: A set of iron bars
transfer out. Each time there is news of
nation if the inmate has been subjected to
painted a dull red. A couple of yards beyond
spreading disease-whether AIDS or intes-
too much radiation. Sinuses are examined,
that, a thick webbing made of iron, painted
tinal flu-the sense of helplessness among
too. The process, most often, is videotaped.
black (one side of the common "recreation
the prisoners mounts. "Something happens
A powerfully built man with shaved head
area"), then metal bars painted black (the
to us, who really cares?" asks Daniel Bifield,
and mustache is seated in an examining
far side of the recreation area). Finally, a
38, a Hells Angel serving 25 years for extor-
room. A prison official is asking him about
small window with heavy glass set in thick
tion, escape and possession of a firearm. "I
his nose. Does he mind having it examined?
metal louvers. The recreation area is emp-
don't want to die in prison."
He says he doesn't think it would make a
ty except for a chinning bar and an exercise
Many withdraw into their own world.
difference if he did mind.
bicycle cemented to the floor. In the sum-
David Lane, a founding member of the racist
"What's that up your right nostril
mer there is ventilation but no air condi-
group The Order, is serving 190 years on
there?" the officer wants to know as he
tioning. Temperatures sometimes reach
racketeering charges and for violation of
shines the light.
high into the 90s.
civil rights resulting in death; he was part of
Death beds: Amnesty Interna-
the gang that killed Denver
tional, reporting on numerous
talk-show host Alan Berg. Each
complaints in 1987, concluded
morning, Lane wakes up at 6
only that there were "serious
o'clock. Then he stuffs wet toilet
shortcomings in the measures
paper in his ears and begins to
taken to investigate the allega-
hum: sometimes something by
tions." Officials offer a ration-
Patsy Cline; sometimes the
al, even benign explanation for
Horst Wessel Song. "There's
every rule. Guards hammer the
times in prison when the noise,
bars periodically-all but deaf-
to a quiet man, is like sticking
ening prisoners with the ear-
your head in a drum with some-
splitting noise-in order to
one banging on it." So Lane
make sure no one has sawed
hums and retreats. "I live with
into them. The black paint
Leonidas [the Spartan king] at
gives the cellblock the air of a
Thermopylae. But to most peo-
dungeon, but it helps guards
ple their immediate environ-
see the length of the recreation
ment is their life. Here, every
area. The beds are made of con-
sensory experience is removed,
crete because metal beds pro-
except you and Big Brother,
vide bits of iron or steel to make
you and the State. An inmate
daggers or "shanks." Large
constantly tries to assert, 'I am
plastic lighting fixtures have
human.' Everything around
given way to smaller, dimmer
LARRY DOWNING-NEWSWEEK
him tells him, 'No, you're not,
ones because the plastic covers
No sudden moves: Uncuffing an inmate in the exercise yard
You're a cipher'."
on the old ones could be sheared
Michael Whitehead's cell has
into shanks which can't be detected by met-
black-and-white television and
"You mean the bugger?"
al detectors.
radio. Available to all prisoners except
"If it's a bugger, it's wrapped in
Most of Marion's prisoners are fed in
cellophane."
those in the Hole, the entertainment helps
their cells. Until recently their food came in
pacify the men. They get all the local chan-
It's handcuff keys. Handcuff keys. The
cellophane wrappers, but those, too, have
nels and the networks. There are also in-
officer walks away with them and the
now been banned. Burning aspirin as a
inmate, his hands cuffed behind his
house videos: Jane Fonda workout tapes,
source of heat, some inmates melted cello-
recent movies ("Dangerous Liaisons") and
back, looks around expectantly, helplessly.
phane, molded it, hardened it, fashioned it
"Somebody wipe my nose?"
mood films. One, showing canoes on lakes,
into crude blades. Last year a Cuban prison-
trout, geese and herons, thsoothing natu-
The frustrations, the anger, mount slow-
er was killed with one of these cellophane
ral sounds, is called "Solitudes." These
ly, like the weight of routine. The guards
daggers. Today, James P. Wagner, a robber-
provide little comfort for Whitehead. The
know it. Feel it. "Some inmates, you look in
killer, is complaining that yellow legal pads
Aryan Brotherhood, one of the most infa-
their eyes and you know they're thinking
have been declared contraband; he says it's
mous prison gangs, is said to have contracts
about cutting your throat," says Danny Hil-
an effort to keep him from pursuing his
out on him, believing he gave evidence
liard, one of the H-Unit officers. "But if you
legal cases. But last summer another pris-
against the gang's members.
start looking at them like wild animals,
oner managed to fashion a bomb out of
Punching bag: Marion offers him some secu-
you're going to have problems. Most of the
ground match heads, with bits of metal
time, you got to take care of them. It's like
rity, but the gangs are patient. Last year one
zipper as shrapnel, sewn meticulously into
gang ordered the execution of a former
working in a nursing home."
the rolled-up cardboard backing of a legal
The water for Marion prison comes from
member who had made it through the pro-
pad. So cardboard is contraband. Last
gram to B-Unit, where he awaited a trans-
Crab Orchard Lake, which suffers from low-
month matches were banned as well. By
fer. This seemed like a safe haven-Mar-
level contamination by PCBs. Still, the En-
trial and error, and this long process of
ion's authorities assume that inmates will
vironmental Protection Agency has deter-
elimination, nearly everything has been
mined that the ake meets federal standards
do nothing in B-Unit to jeopardize their
taken from the prisoners.
for drinking water. More seriously, eight of
chances of getting out. But the gang mem-
bers chose to obey their orders instead. Al-
68 NEWSWEEK JANUARY 15, 1990
legedly, they cornered their tar-
ing a life sentence. Edwin P.
get in his cell and hanged him.
Wilson supplied arms, explo-
They tried to make it look like a
sives and terrorist training to
suicide but were caught and
Libya. For that, and for trying
shipped back to the Hole. "Itwas
to put out a murder contract
almost like a kamikaze kind of
from jail, Wilson is serving 52
thing," says Henman.
years. Serial killer Joseph Paul
The men in the eight
Franklin was a member of the
basement cells of K-Unit are
Ku Klux Klan and the Ameri-
not America's most dangerous
can Nazi Party who ambushed
criminals, merely some of its
his victims, usually interracial
most infamous. Their cells look
couples, with a long-range rifle.
like mansions compared with
LARRY DOWNING-NEWSWEEK
Homemade arsenal: Confiscated daggers known as 'shanks'
He is serving life plus life. In
the rest of Marion: 200 square
the cell next to him is Garrett
feet, a private shower, book-
Trapnell, who hijacked an air-
shelves and a typewriter, a 19-inch color
jective." He insists that the conditions
plane in 1972 to free Angela Davis. He is
television. There is a pool table and a small
are not especially punitive. But David
serving life plus five years plus five years
library that only two inmates can use at a
Ward, a University of Minnesota sociology
consecutively. For a time, Christopher
time. But the atmosphere of hopelessness
professor who has studied Alcatraz and
Boyce, the young spy known as the Falcon,
that pervades the basement is more pro-
Marion, comes to a different conclusion.
was held here after he escaped from a less
foundstill than in the Hole. K-Unit is itsown
In a system without capital punishment,
secure prison.
isolated world. The only outside recreation
he says, K-Unit is "a collection of prison-
The men of K-Unit look to their dreams
area is virtually aconcrete pit, about thesize
ers who are there for symbolic reasons, to
for solace. Wilson recalls the delights of the
of a back swimming pool, covered
show what the federal government can do
high-rolling life he used to lead: "When I
over with storm fencing, a TV camera peer-
if it really gets angry."
die, don't want to go to heaven, I want to go
ing down from above, its equipment nothing
Most of the K-Unit inmates committed
to a good Paris restaurant." Walker and
more than a basketball hoop and a well-
crimes with political-and international-
Pollard, according to other inmates and
worn punching bag.
implications. The most heavily guarded is
guards, imagine that someday they will be
This pit is the totality of K-Unit's world.
Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. Navy
"traded" out of prison in an exchange for
The men here are not part of Marion's
intelligence analyst sentenced to life im-
captured American spies. Trapnell has
program. Good behavior won't get them
prisonment in 1987 for spying for Israel.
been working on a film script. "It's called
out. Among administrators it's called "the
"Pollard is going to be down there awhile,"
"The Parole Plan,' about a guy who's spent
director's unit," because it's the director
says one senior prison official, "mainly
his life in prison. When he gets out, he has
of the Bureau of Prisons who decides who
because he is a national-security problem.
to get around the work ethic, so he takes
goes in and for how long. To get out, says
He still possesses a lot of information."
over the Bahamas."
Norman Carlson, the former director who
John Walker spied for the Soviets, in one
Bad apples: Critics of Marion's "high-secu-
established the K-Unit, "time is the only
of the most damaging espionage cases ever
rity operation" say it "works like an anchor
factor." How much time? "It's totally sub-
discovered by the United States. He is serv-
and it pulls every other institution toward
its own repressive ends." They dismiss the
Bureau of Prisons argument that by con-
Safe and Secure But Lacking Amenities
centrating "all the bad apples" in one
place, other prisons can be more open insti-
In an inmates' guide to jailhouses, the federal prison at Marion would not earn
tutions. "It just isn't true," says Jan Susler,
even a rating of one star. No one inside would mistake it for a country club.
a Chicago attorney who has represented
several Marion inmates. "Since they have
ITEM
GENERAL POPULATION AT
AT MARION
OTHER U.S. PENITENTIARIES
had the lockdown at Marion other institu-
Bed type
Flexible springs.
Concrete slabs.
tions have tightened up, too."
None of this will seem attractive to Nori-
Food service
Buffet style in central
Prepackaged ration
mess hall. Seconds.
ega. As an inmate awaiting trial, his regi-
in cell. No seconds.
men at Marion would be roughly as strict as
Out-of-cell time
14-16 hours per day.
2 hours per day.
that of his convicted neighbors. If he is
Recreation
5 hours per day, min.
2 hours per day.
found guilty, he could spend the rest of his
life adjusting to the peculiarities of the
Outside yard
All day weekends; min.
2 hours, twice a week.
southern Illinois climate. As a military
3 hours weekdays
man, the discipline will not be strange,
Commissary
Convenience-store inventory.
Limited goods,
though taking orders is less desirable than
delivered to cell.
giving them. And he won't have much op-
Oil painting
Yes.
No.
portunity to indulge the exotic tastes of
flesh and blood that have been attributed to
Knitting
Yes.
Limited.
him in the media. Still, the solitude will
Access to TV
Color TV, 16 hours per day
Black-and-white TV in cell.
give him an opportunity to capitalize on his
in common areas.
notoriety. As Richard Nixon once sagely
Restraints when
commented, when he, too, faced the pros-
moved inside
pect of a stretch in the slammer, some of the
institution
No.
Yes, handcuffs.
best political writing has been done from
SOURCE: GARRETT BROCK TRAPNELL, INMATE NUMBER 72021-158
jail. "Noriega: My Story" is a book awaiting
only a million-dollar advance and the time
to write it.
NEWSWEEK JANUARY 15, 1990 69
Fear, Anger
criminals who are allowed to victimize entire communities,
yet receive little or no punishment if caught. I don't fault our
law enforcers. Each one who has been in my home has been
a caring, supporting person, as equally enraged as I. And
and Revenge
as impotent.
As a society we teach our children that a "community" (be
it a family, a classroom or a town) can exist only if we
follow the rules, and when we break rules certain punish-
BY BECKY FERGUSON
ments will follow. I asked my 9-year-old why she doesn't
throw food in the school lunchroom. "I'd get in trouble!"
she responded. And so she should.
hey're back
I've been hit again. Another break-
What's happened? Where are the rules of society we work
T
in. This time as I was leaving my home I saw my
so hard to teach our children? How did we evolve into a
three-foot cerebral-palsy puppet, which I use in an
society that protects a criminal's rights to the extent that
educational program, hanging upside down, from
private citizens are held hostage? I cannot disagree with
a tree. I looked around my car. Other things were
the presumption that a person is innocent until proven
missing. Immediately those familiar feelings of surprise,
guilty, but I do believe that the pendulum of "justice" has
fear, anger, revenge and then, as always, helplessness
swung too far in that direction. It's only when a person
came over me. When is it going to stop? As I retrieved
becomes a habitual criminal, or when the crime is such
Mark from the tree, it occurred to me how like Mark I
that society is totally enraged, that just punishment is
am-a helpless puppet.
even considered. In my community first- or second-time
After experiencing 10 break-ins or attempted break-ins
burglary suspects are released—there is just no room in
over the last six years, I have had it! But then comes the
the jail. They are back on the street in three or four hours
helplessness. I had "had it" after the first break-in, but what
ready to strike again, with even greater motivation, know-
can do? have a sophisticated security system that automat-
ing that their risks are small.
ically calls the sheriff. I keep
Sense of community: Many of
serial numbers on all the
these "smaller crimes" are
"popular" items (TV, stereo,
VCR, etc.). I write STOLEN
A gentle,
committed by teenagers or
young adults who seem
FROM FERGUSON on all our
lawn and garden tools. I
giving' person
to have gotten lost, who
seem to have slipped
keep a loaded gun. I had a
gets tough on
through the cracks during
dog, but even she was stolen.
crime after one
those all-important impres-
I feel like a hostage in my
sionable years. And we are
own home.
too many
producing more lost souls
The sum total of all the
goods stolen over the years
burglaries
every year in many of our
educational systems. In this
and the damage done proba-
world of bigger is better and
bly equals, monetarily, less
"money saving" cuts, we
than what we donate to charities in two or three months. But
have traded our smaller neighborhood schools for large,
that isn't the issue. Anyone who has had even one attempted
broader institutions. While it may save money and provide a
burglary can testify to the personal violation they feel.
wider scope of academic experiences, in the process one's
I've never been raped or physically abused, yet I feel as
identity and self-esteem are often sacrificed. How can a child
though I've endured the same indignities as victims of such
who has little or no home support be expected to develop a
heinous crimes.
sense of worth, a sense of belonging, amid the confusion that
I am a gentle, giving person. I am your typical Wasp stay-
is rampant in elementary schools of 500-plus students and
at-home mom who spends a lot of time volunteering away
high schools with campuses as large as many colleges? In a
from home. I teach a free dance class twice a week for
neighborhood school, teachers know every child and every
the city Recreation Department. But my tape player and all
child's parents, or lack of parents. A supportive sense of
my dance tapes were stolen in this last break-in. I plan
community naturally evolves, and a child grows up believ-
and cook Wednesday-night meals at our church. But
ing he is a viable part of a whole.
some of the proceeds from a dinner were stolen in the
To crack down on "smaller crimes," we have to start with
burglary. I am a volunteer puppeteer with an organization
the smaller people-our children. Raise them and educate
called Kids on the Block. But Mark, my puppet, was left
them in an environment that doesn't allow so many to get
hanging in the tree, and his storage bag and part of his
lost in the crowd. If we can start here, perhaps we could
wheelchair were stolen. So much of the "giving" me was
alter the recognized route of habitual criminals. The dust
taken with this last burglary.
of petty crimes is being swept under our carpet, and the
What if I were able to confront one of the guilty? The one
pile is growing larger and spreading the eventual filth of
time I interrupted an attempted break-in I was so enraged,
major crimes throughout the country. It's time for some
had I been armed I would have shot to kill. All I could do,
housecleaning, America.
however, was chase him into the woods. But had I gotten
Did thinking about and writing a "My Turn" bring to light
revenge, would be the guilty one and the victim would have
any new solutions? Not really. Will it reduce the number of
been a "young, pitiful, disadvantaged teenager who should
break-ins? Probably not. Did it help diffuse any of my rage?
have been in school."
Perhaps a little-until the next break-in, and then the
When your privacy has been violated as often as mine
cycle will begin again. I just hope next time it's not me they
your attitude is also affected. The "gentle and giving" me
leave hanging from a tree.
goes beyond seeing these people as the tragic result of a bad
home life. They are members of an ever growing group of
Ferguson, a homemaker, lives in Knoxville, Tenn.
NEWSWEEK JANUARY 15, 1990
9
DRAFT
National
Drug Control
Strategy
Executive
Summary
January 1990
DRAFT
The National Drug Control Strategy, January 1990
Executive Summary
In accordance with the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, the
President transmitted a National Drug Control Strategy on
September 5th, 1989. The Act also requires that subsequent
National Strategies be submitted each year by February 1.
The January 1990 National Drug Control Strategy is a
companion volume to the Strategy released last September. Like
its predecessor, this Strategy presents a coordinated and
comprehensive plan of attack involving every important anti-drug
initiative. The September Strategy described our national drug
problem and sketched the broad outlines of national drug control
policy; this volume of the Strategy lays out, in considerable
detail, what Federal drug policy will look like when implemented:
the activities and responsibilities of Federal departments and
agencies; specific initiatives to begin in this fiscal year; and
the funding and legislation necessary to carry out the
Administration's policy. Throughout the Strategy, State and
local governments are urged to devise drug plans and devote the
needed resources to drug control activities so that they can
become full partners in a national policy.
The fundamental principle of the National Strategy remains
unchanged: to reduce drug use through a mix of supply and demand
DRAFT
policies. All the initiatives and proposals contained in the
first Strategy are still a part of the Administration's national
drug policy; this second volume builds on it and closely examines
the component parts of a comprehensive drug plan. The January
1990 Strategy also follows the same format as the first Strategy.
Seven chapters (Criminal Justice, Drug Treatment, Education
Workplace, and Community, International Initiatives, Interdiction
Efforts, A Research Agenda, and An Intelligence Agenda) contain a
thorough discussion of issues, policies, and activities related
to our national drug control activities. The Administration's
formal designations of High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas and
a broad review of Federal drug program management are included in
separate appendices.
For Fiscal Year 1991, the Administration is seeking XX
billion dollars in drug-related funding -- a $xx billion (xx
percent) increase over the past fiscal year and a $xx billion
increase (xx percent) since Fiscal Year 1989.
DRAFT
Highlights from the January 1990 National Drug Control Strategy
Criminal Justice
Expanded Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces
The Administration will seek $xx to provide more
investigators and agents, additional financial crime
specialists, intelligence analysts, and criminal attorneys.
More DEA and FBI agents
$xx million sought for more DEA agents and support
personnel.
Expansion of DEA technical, communications, and information
capability.
More FBI agents, analysts, and foreign language specialists.
Expanded Precursor Chemical Program
Operation Chemcon, a joint Customs-DEA program, to be
extended to all domestic ports of entry to seize smuggled
chemicals essential for illegal drug production.
Strengthened Prosecutorial Resources
800 additional U.S. Attorneys (mandated by the President's
Violent Crime Initiative) to be in place by FY 1991.
Additional attorneys and staff for the Criminal and Tax
Division of the Justice Department.
More U.S. Court Capacity
Establishment of 75 new Federal judgeships.
Additional court clerks, administrators, court officers, and
legal services for indigent defendants.
More Prison Space On Line
Over 3,000 new beds to be available in the Federal prison
system this fiscal year.
Drug Treatment
More and Better Drug Treatment Services
$xxx million in drug treatment funding for the ADAMHA block
grant.
Creation of the Office of Treatment Improvement within the
DRAFT
Department of Health and Human Services to provide national
leadership in drug treatment and focus on the quality and
effectiveness of treatment methods.
Innovative Treatment through Demonstration Projects
Treatment programs for adolescents, treatment "campuses",
treatment evaluation and referral programs.
Treatment for Pregnant Women and Infants
$xx million devoted to outreach, treatment, and research for
expectant mothers and their children.
More Comprehensive Drug Treatment
Increased vocational counseling, training services, and
aftercare for recovering drug addicts.
Education, Community, and Workplace
More School-Based Drug Education Programs
Efforts aimed at high-risk and minority youth.
Expanded evaluations of school drug prevention programs.
Community Drug Prevention
$xx million incentive grants for communities that create
broad-based, comprehensive, local prevention programs.
Drug Free Public Housing
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$xx for the Public Housing Drug Elimination grants programs.
Drug Free Workplace
Cooperation with the private sector to develop drug-free
workplace programs.
International Initiatives
Expanded Andean Strategy
Increased military, law enforcement, and economic assistance
to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia.
Increased Cooperation with Mexico
Cooperative law enforcement efforts with Mexico to include
drug-related investigations, money laundering disruption,
DRAFT
and the enhancement of Mexican drug interdiction programs.
Strengthened Financial Crimes Enforcement
Money laundering and other drug-related financial crimes to
become an Administration priority through the Department of
Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) and
the multi-agency Drug-Related Financial Crimes Policy Group.
Interdiction Efforts
Focus on the Southwest Border
Increased numbers of Customs and INS Inspectors and Border
Patrol along the Southwest border.
Larger Department of Defense Role
O
Expanded Department of Defense role in the detection and
monitoring phase of drug interdiction, and Department
support to border control agencies.
A Research Agenda
Wider Range of Basic Drug Information
Better estimates of production and consumption; the economic
impact of drugs; criminal justice simulation models.
Expanded drug use survey research.
Regional and State Measures of Progress
Development of a "status report" on State drug use
indicators and drug control efforts.
Medical and Scientific Research
Continued research on drug addiction and pregnancy; AIDS and
drugs; medications development
Broader drug detection technology and law enforcement
research.
An Intelligence Agenda
National Drug Intelligence Center
Creation of a National Drug Intelligence Center to
coordinate and consolidate drug intelligence from all law
enforcement agencies to produce a strategic picture of drug
trafficking networks.
DRAFT
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas
Five Areas Designated as HIDTAs
New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, and the Southwest
Border formally designated High Intensity Drug Trafficking
Areas.
$xx million to be devoted to these areas to intensify law
enforcement and interdiction activities.
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The National Drug Control Strategy, January 1990
Executive Summary
In accordance with the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, the
President presented his first National Drug Control Strategy on
September 5th, 1989. The Act requires that subsequent National
strategies be submitted each year by February 1.
The 1990 National Drug Control Strategy, released on January
25, is a companion volume to the Strategy released last
September. Like its predecessor, this strategy presents a
coordinated and comprehensive plan involving Federal, State, and
local government; the private sector; schools, colleges, and
universities; churches and other religious groups; and countless
community organizations. The September Strategy described our
national drug problem and sketched the broad outlines of national
drug control policy; this volume of the Strategy lays out, in
considerable detail, what Federal drug policy will look like when
implemented: the activities and responsibilities of Federal
departments and agencies; specific initiatives to begin in this
fiscal year; and the funding necessary to carry forward the
Administration's policy. Throughout the strategy, State and
local governments are urged to devise drug plans and devote the
needed resources to drug control activities so that they can
become full partners in a national policy.
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The fundamental principle of the National Strategy remains
firm: to reduce drug use through a mix of supply and demand
policies. All the initiatives and proposals contained in the
first strategy are still a part of the Administration's national
drug policy; this second volume builds on it and closely examines
the component parts of a comprehensive drug plan.
The 1990 Strategy follows the same format as the first
Strategy. Seven chapters (Criminal Justice, Drug Treatment,
Education Workplace, and Community, International Initiatives,
Interdiction Efforts, A Research Agenda, and An Intelligence
Agenda) present a thorough discussion of issues, policies, and
activities related to our national drug control activities. The
Administration's formal designations of High Intensity Drug
Trafficking Areas and a broad review of Federal drug program
management issues and budget proposals are included in separate
appendices.
For Fiscal Year 1991, the Administration is seeking $10.6
billion in drug-related funding -- a $4.3 billion (69 percent)
increase since taking office twelve months ago and a $1.1 billion
(12 percent) increase over Fiscal Year 1990.
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Highlights from the January 1990 National Drug Control Strategy
Criminal Justice
Expanded Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces
An additional $115 million sought to provide more
investigators and agents, additional financial crime
specialists, intelligence analysts, and criminal attorneys.
More DEA and FBI agents
$151 million more sought for additional DEA agents and
support personnel.
Expansion of DEA technical, communications, and information
capability.
More FBI agents, analysts, and foreign language specialists.
Expanded Precursor Chemical Program
Operation Chemcon, a DEA-Customs program, to be extended
to all domestic ports of entry to seize smuggled chemicals
essential for illegal drug production.
strengthened Prosecutorial Resources
o
700 additional U.S. Attorneys and staff (mandated by the
President's Violent Crime Initiative) for drug-related
cases to be in place by Fiscal Year 1991.
Additional attorneys and staff for the Criminal and Tax
Divisions of the Justice Department.
More U.S. Court Capacity
Creation of 75 new Federal judgeships.
Additional court clerks, administrators, court officers, and
legal services for indigent defendants.
More Prison Space On Line
Funding for over 6,000 new beds for the Federal prison
system in Fiscal Year 1991.
Proposed Legislation on the Federal Death Penalty
Proposed legislation to make the death penalty available in
cases involving three additional categories of drug
offenders: major drug kingpins; drug kingpins who attempt
to kill in order to obstruct justice; and Federal drug
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felons whose offense result in death.
Drug Treatment
More and Better Drug Treatment Services
$1.5 billion for drug treatment grants and Federal treatment
programs.
Creation of the Office of Treatment Improvement within the
Department of Health and Human Services to provide national
leadership in drug treatment and focus on the quality and
effectiveness of treatment methods.
Innovative Treatment through Demonstration Projects
0
Approximately $200 million for treatment programs directed
at adolescents, pregnant women and infants, in addition to
treatment "campuses" and treatment evaluation and
referral programs.
Treatment for Pregnant Women and Infants
o
$6 million to improve outreach and treatment services for
drug-affected babies.
More Comprehensive Drug Treatment
Increased vocational counseling, training services, and
aftercare for recovering drug addicts.
Education, Community, and Workplace
More School-Based Drug Education Programs
Efforts aimed at high-risk and minority youth.
o
Expanded school drug prevention programs and evaluations.
Community Drug Prevention
$102 million incentive grants for communities that create
broad-based, comprehensive, local prevention programs.
Drug-Free Public Housing
o
$150 million for the Public Housing Drug Elimination
program.
Drug-Free Workplace
Cooperation with the private sector to develop drug-free
workplace programs.
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Medical and scientific Research
01
Expanded research on drug addiction and pregnancy; AIDS and
drugs; medications development
0
Broader drug detection technology and law enforcement
research.
An Intelligence Agenda
National Drug Intelligence Center
0
Creation of a National Drug Intelligence Center to
coordinate and consolidate drug intelligence from all law
enforcement agencies and to produce a strategic picture of
drug trafficking networks.
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas
Five Areas Designated as HIDTAS
o
New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, and the Southwest
border formally designated High Intensity Drug Trafficking
Areas.
o
$50 million to be devoted to these areas to intensify law
enforcement and interdiction activities.
Additional detail on the National Drug Control Budget is
available in the "Budget Summary," a separate publication to be
released January 29, 1990.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE INITIATIVES
(BA in millions of dollars)
Increase 90-91
1989
1990
1991
$
%
State & Local
311
670
810
140
21
Assistance
Investigations
900
969
1,219
250
26
Prosecution
391
536
700
164
31
Other
1,080
2,016
1,550
-466
-23
Total
2,682
4,191
4,279
88
2
NOTE: The "other" category above includes $1 billion in
FY 1990 for prison construction, a cost that does not need
to be repeated in FY 1991. The true programmatic increase
for the Criminal Justice System from 1990 to 1991 is actually
$1.1 billion, an increase of 34 percent over 1990, instead of
the $88 million suggested by the nominal bottom line.
CURRENT STATUS
0
Investigative resources are not sufficient to the task.
Many State and local criminal justice systems are over-
whelmed by the amount of drug activity.
o
The rapid rise in drug prosecutions threatens to overwhelm
the Federal courts. Caseload, security, and post-arrest and
pre-sentencing detention are key problem areas.
Those under correctional supervision are a high risk group
for drug abuse. An estimated 50 percent of Federal prison
system inmates and nearly 80 percent of State prison inmates
have had experience with drug use or addiction.
o
Domestic cannabis production is up -- 25 percent of the
cannabis available is grown in the United States.
STRATEGY II PROPOSALS
o
Increase funding for DEA activities (agents and support
personnel) by $151 M. Included will be an additional $10M
for DEA State and Local Task Forces.
o
Dedicate an additional $32M to expand FBI activities.
o
Double the funding (to $35M) for programs to attack domestic
marijuana production. DEA, Forest Service, National Park
Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Bureau of Land
Management are all involved in this task.
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Use ONDCP's special forfeiture funds to improve technical,
information processing, and communications capabilities for
law enforcement.
Expand funding for BATF's drug-related investigations by
nearly $6M.
Expand funding for DEA state/local Task Forces by $10M.
Increase DOJ grants to state and local law enforcement to
$492M (an increase of 228 percent since taking office).
Provide $403M for drug-related activities within the U.S.
Court system, to include more clerks, administrators, court
officers, and increased legal services for indigent
defendants.
Request 75 new judgeships for the Federal Court System.
Provide the U.S. Marshals with $47M in new drug-related
resources and to expand their Prison Transportation and
Detention Program.
Devote $8M to expand drug treatment within the Federal
prison system and $28M for the substance Abuse Treatment
Program in the U.S. Probation Office. Expand and improve
similar programs in state prisons through the use of ADAMHA
block grants.
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TREATMENT INITIATIVES
(BA in millions of dollars)
Increase 90-91
1989
1990
1991
$
#
ADAMHA
392
686
760
74
11
VA
240
269
298
29
11
Other
256
382
434
52
14
Total
888
1,337
1,492
155
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CURRENT STATUS
o
The Federal Government provides approximately $1.3 billion
in support for treatment.
Federal block grant funds support the equivalent of 71,000
treatment slots able to serve roughly 178,000 patients each
year.
o
Combined with State/local/private sources, total treatment
capacity is at least 329,000 slots, according to the 1987
National Drug and Alcoholism Treatment Unit Survey. We
suspect this number has grown to at least 380,000, possibly
as high as 643,000 in 1990.
STRATEGY II PROPOSAL
0
Add 15,400 slots to the block grant and demonstration
programs, servicing approximately 38,500 clients.
Provide additional job training and counseling services for
recovering addicts with a 20% increase in Federal support
from $70 million to $84 million.
o
Add $6 million to the Office of Human Development Services
to improve and expand outreach and treatment services to
assist "cocaine babies."
Develop innovative approaches to drug treatment, including
drug treatment campuses and special programs targeted on
adolescents and pregnant women.
Expand fellowship and grant programs for treatment
professionals and staff to $26 million.
o
Establish the Office of Treatment Improvement (HHS) to focus
on the quality and effectiveness of drug treatment.
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Enhance treatment research by $30 million, including
expanded data collection, medications development, and
evaluation of current treatment methods.
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EDUCATION, COMMUNITY ACTION AND THE WORKPLACE
(BA in millions of dollars)
Increase 90-91
1989
1990
1991
$
*
Education
355
539
593
54
10
HHS (ADAMHA)
121
235
283
48
20
Other
201
344
366
22
6
Total
677
1,118
1,242
124
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CURRENT STATUS
0
Drug prevention programs are more common among higher
education institutions than drug testing or drug treatment -
43% had prevention programs; 10% had drug testing programs;
14% had treatment programs. (1987 Data)
o
HUD will award slightly more than 8M for Public Housing Drug
Elimination grants in FY 1989 and $98M in FY 1990.
o
In the private sector, large companies (64%) are much more
likely than small firms: (1%) to have drug-testing programs.
Recent Gallup survey shows that support for drug testing is
increasing.
STRATEGY PROPOSAL
o
More Drug Education Programs
:
Increase Drug Free Schools grants by nearly $50M.
--
Increase accountability and coordination between
schools and communities for drug prevention programs.
:
Seek $25M for emergency grants to urban and rural
education agencies.
--
Issue new anti-drug handbook for parents and publish
model anti-drug curriculum by March.
o
Enhance Community Drug Prevention
:
Seek $50M more for community incentive grants to fund
comprehensive prevention strategies.
:
Establish new research center on minority drug
prevention.
--
Seek $38M in OSAP prevention grants for drug using
pregnant and postpartum women and their infants.
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Encourage private sector to expand initiatives aimed at
minority youth and high risk youth (1.e. President's
Drug Advisory Council).
Eliminate Drugs from Public Housing Projects
-- Seek $150M for the Public Housing Drug Elimination
program -- a 50% increase.
Encourage Drug-Free Workplaces
--
Develop model legislation for the States on drug-free
workplace.
--
Urge Federal agencies to fully implement drug-free
workplace programs.
--
Continue to support private sector efforts aimed at
drug-free workplaces.
-- Encourage companies to establish drug testing programs
in instances of public safety.
Reduce Steroid Abuse
--
Increase efforts to inform the public, particularly
youth, on the dangers of steroid abuse.
o
Increase International Demand Reduction
--
Emphasize international cooperation to reduce demand
reduction in key countries.
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Improve chemicals. interdiction of drug money, munitions, and precursor
-- Bring joint Coast Guard/Customs C3I systems fully on-line
and integrate it with EPIC and DOD joint task forces.
-- Create Border Interdiction Committee (formerly TIC).
Enhance interdiction programs.
-- Improve Coast Guard maritime intercept/apprehension
programs.
-- Expand Coast Guard Shiprider program.
-- Improve air target sorting process.
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RESEARCH INITIATIVES
(BA in millions of dollars)
Increase 90-91
1989
1990
1991
$
of
Treatment Research
125
153
183
30
20
Prevention Research
80
128
154
26
20
Other Research
26
37
46
9
24
Total
231
318
383
65
20
CURRENT STATUS
o
At present, drug-related research receives approximately
$318 million annually in Federal support.
STRATEGY II PROPOSAL
o
Seek $383 million for drug-related research in FY 91, an
increase of $65 million. (20%) from FY 90 to:
:
Estimate economic impact of drugs, effectiveness of
alternative drug control policies, and impact of drug
enforcement on the criminal justice system.
:
Improve information base on which to assess the
efficacy of drug-control activities by developing
regional and State drug-related data.
--
Expand and broaden national data collection on drugs
and drug use, including larger and more frequent
household surveys; surveys targeted on hard-to-reach
populations (e.g., heroin addicts, the homeless) i
broaden high school surveys; and enlarge information
collection on drug treatment.
:
Increase technological and scientific research related
to drug enforcement and interdiction.
-- Expand drug treatment research focused on addiction,
AIDS and drug use, medications development, treatment
for pregnant addicts, and basic issues related to
neurobiological and behavioral issues.
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INTELLIGENCE INITIATIVES
(BA in millions of dollars)
Increase 90-91
1989
1990
1991
$
#
Intel Ctr
0
o
86
86
N/A
Other
53
71
86
15
21
Total
53
71
172
101
142
CURRENT STATUS
o
The two principal sources for drug-related intelligence
( foreign and law enforcement intelligence) must capitalize on
opportunities to collect potentially useful information and
then analyze and disseminate this intelligence to aid our drug
control programs.
STRATEGY II PROPOSAL
o
Create National Drug Intelligence Center to consolidate and
coordinate relevant law enforcement information related to
drug trafficking. It will:
--
Develop/maintain computer databases for entire law
enforcement community.
--
Provide intelligence to law enforcement agencies.
--
Establish collection requirements for law enforcement
community.
:
Serve as exchange point between law enforcement and
foreign intelligence communities.
--
Assess interagency intelligence efforts.
--
Promote information sharing among various law enforcement
communities.
:
Provide strategic assessments of drug smuggling and
distribution organizations.
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Automated Data Processing
-- Expand and improve ADP technology by drug enforcement
intelligence agencies.
-- Refine procedures 80 national foreign intelligence is
available to appropriate law enforcement agencies.
-- Ensure information from existing/new ADP systems is
basis. available to law enforcement officials on need-to-know
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HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS
(BA in millions of dollars)
Increase 90-91
1989
1990
1991
$
%
ONDCP
o
25
50
25
100
NOTE: These figures are presented for display only. They
are included in the Totals shown for Criminal Justice.
CURRENT STATUS
O
Section 1005 of ADAA-88 authorizes the Director of ONDCP to
designate areas as "high intensity drug trafficking areas."
Because the September 1989 strategy was submitted "off
cycle" from the budget, no HIDTAs were designated.
STRATEGY II PROPOSAL
o
Designate five areas as HIDTAS: New York City, Los Angeles,
Miami, Houston, and the Southwest border.
Double funding for HIDTAs: $25M in FY 90 to $50M in FY 91.
Request $1.4B for other drug enforcement, treatment, and
prevention activities targeted on the five designated areas
--a $168M increase over the 1990 level.
Nationwide, increase Federal resources to States and
localities by 13%, including additional resources for:
-- OCDE Task Forces: FY 90: $215M; FY 91: $330M
-- DEA State & Local Task Forces: FY 90: $32M; FY 91: $42M
-- Justice Grant Programs: FY 90: $447H; FY 91: $492M
-- DEA Domestic Marijuana Eradication: FY 90: $4M; FY 91: $14M
--
Public Housing: FY 90: $98M; FY 91: $150M
-- State National Guard Operations: FY 90: $70M; FY 91: $81M
--
Drug Treatment: FY 90: $686M; FY 91: $760M
-- Prevention: FY 90: $235M; FY 91: $283M
-- Drug-Free Schools: FY 90: $539M; FY 91: $593M
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possibilities of an entire generation of disadvantaged young people.
They need help. Their neighborhoods need help. A decent and respon-
sible America must fully mobilize to provide it.
Thinking About Drugs and Public Policy
What. generally speaking. should we do? What's the best way to
fight drugs and drug use? It is a broad and complicated question. It is
also a question the United States has struggled with inconclusively for
many decades.
Facing understandable public outrage and alarm over the terrible
consequences of widespread drug use, Federal, State, and local govern-
ments have repeatedly sought to concentrate dramatic responsive ac-
tion against one or another point on the drug-problem continuum: first
through law enforcement: later through a combination of education and
treatment efforts: and most recently through heavy emphasis on inter-
diction of imported drugs at our borders.
Conceived largely as an end in itself, each of these national Initia-
tives has succeeded - in a limited but worthy sphere. We have had, in
slow succession, more law enforcement. more education and treatment,
and more interdiction. But through it all, undeniably. our national drug
problem has persisted. Until late July. convincing evidence of dramatic
forward progress was painfully scarce. Indeed, until late July. most
evidence continued to suggest that the United States was at best only
just beginning to recover from the worst epidemic of illegal drug use in
its history - more severe than the heroin scare of the late 1960s and
early 1970s; far more severe, in fact, than any ever experienced by an
industrialized nation.
The new Household Survey changes our picture of the drug prob-
lem a bit, making It more precise and comprehensible. But it does not
change the lesson that must be learned from all our many years of
experience in the fight. That lesson is clear and simple: no single tactic
- pursued alone or to the detriment of other possible and valuable
initiatives - can work to contain or reduce drug use. No single tactic
can justly claim credit for recent reductions in most use of most drugs
by most Americans. And no single tactic will now get us out of our
appalling. deepening crisis of cocaine addiction.
Unfortunately, however, the search for such a tactic still consumes
the bulk of American public energy and debate about drugs. Two
radically opposed strains of thought are principally at issue in this
unavailing search. Each. interestingly enough, casts unfair aspersions
on the skill and utility of our law enforcement agencies and their officers
- the first by complaining that law enforcement doesn't work at all and
should be junked: the second by complaining that law enforcement
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odds are heavily stacked against them, their every misstep and failure
- however small - is nevertheless routinely held up to political and
journalistic ridicule.
We do them a grave injustice. Jealousy and bickering among
Federal, State, and local drug agencies make for interesting gossip. to be
sure. But the plain truth is that they are not the norm. And when
interagency cooperation does occasionally break down, it can usually be
traced either to the overriding spirit and energy of our front-line drug
enforcement officers - which we should be extremely reluctant to re-
strict within formal and arbitrary lines - or, more basically. to a failure
of coherent policymaking in Washington.
In the too-long absence of any real national consensus about the
proper overarching goal of American drug policy, the only available
measure of drug enforcement success has been statistical: so many
thousands of arrests, so many tons of marijuana seized. so many acres
of opium poppy and coca plants destroyed. In this kind of policy
vacuum. some degree of competition over "body counts" among involved
enforcement agencies is almost inevitable. The real miracle is that
intramural rivairies have been so relatively restrained and insignificant.
No doubt Federal, State, and local drug enforcement can and
should be made tougher, more extensive, more efficient. This report
offers a number of major proposals to accomplish just that. But, again.
stronger and better coordinated drug enforcement alone is not the
answer. It is a means to an end. It should not become the end itself.
We must be tough. We must be humane. And we must pursue change
- in some cases, sweeping change. But before it can begin, we must get
smart about the drug problem - smarter than we have been in the past.
First, we must come to terms with the drug problem in its essence:
use itself. Worthy efforts to alleviate the symptoms of epidemic drug
abuse - crime and disease, for example - must continue unabated.
But a largely ad-hoc attack on the holes in our dike can have only an
indirect and minimal effect on the flood itself. By the same token. we
must avoid the easy temptation to blame our troubles first on those
chronic problems of social environment - like poverty and racism -
which help to breed and spread the contagion of drug use. We have
been fighting such social ills for decades: that fight. too, must continue
unabated. But we need not - and cannot - sit back and wait for that
fight to be won for good. Too many lives will be lost in the interim. The
simple problem with drugs is painfully obvious: too many Americans
still use them. And so the highest priority of our drug policy must be a
stubborn determination further to reduce the overall level of drug use
nationwide - experimental first use, "casual" use. regular use, and
addiction alike.
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That said, we must be scrupulously honest about the difficulties we
face - about what we can reasonably hope to accomplish, and when.
People take drugs for many complicated reasons that we do not yet fully
understand. But most drug users share an attitude toward their drugs
that we would do well to acknowledge openly: at least at first, they find
drugs intensely pleasurable. It is a hollow, degrading. and deceptive
pleasure, of course, and pursuing it is an appallingly self-destructive
impulse. But self-destructive behavior is a human flaw that has always
been with us - and always will. And drug addiction is a particularly
tenacious form of self-destruction, one which its victims very often
cannot simply choose to correct on their own.
Last fall, an important and valuable piece of omnibus Federal drug
legislation was enacted. "The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988." Among its
several hundred provisions was a declaration that it would be the policy
of the United States Government to "create a Drug-Free America by
1995." That is an admirable goal. It is already a reality for the vast
majority of Americans who have never taken an illegal drug. And
government has a solemn obligation to keep those Americans - and
their children after them - safe and secure from the poison of drug
trafficking and drug use.
But government also has an obligation to tell the truth and act
accordingly. There is no quick fix or magic bullet for individual dissipa-
tion, and policymakers should not pretend that we are on the verge of
discovering one for drugs. The continued search for a single "answer" to
our troubles with drugs in law enforcement. in education and treat-
ment, in border interdiction. or somewhere else - is a bad idea. We
have bounced back and forth in emphasis this way for too long. It has
not worked well. And it will hold us back in the near- and long-term
future, by diverting our attention from new and serious work that can
and must be done right now.
The United States has a broad array of tools at its disposal, in
government and out, each of which - in proper combination with the
others - can and does have a significant effect on the shape and size of
our drug problem. We must use them all. We must have what we have
never had before: a comprehensive, fully integrated national drug
control strategy. It must proceed from a proper understanding of all
that we do and do not know about drugs. It must take calm and
intelligent measure of the strengths and limitations of specific available
drug control initiatives. And it must then begin to intensify and
calibrate them so that the number of Americans who still use cocaine
and other illegal drugs. to the entire nation's horrible disadvantage, is -
more and more as time goes by - dramatically reduced.
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behavioral effect on non-addicts than on addicts. And in the search for
long-term solutions to epidemic drug use, this fact works to our benefit.
Any additional short-term reduction in the number of American casual
or regular drug users will be a good in itself, of course. But because it is
their kind of drug use that is most contagious, any further reduction in
the non-addicted drug user population will also promise still greater
future reductions in the number of Americans who are recruited to join
their dangerous ranks.
Demand, Supply, and Strategy
It is commonly and correctly assumed that the extent of our
problem with drug use can be described in terms borrowed from classi-
cal economics: that is, as a largely market function influenced by the
variable "supply" of drug sellers and the variable "demand" of drug
buyers. So far, so good. But it is just as commonly - and incorrectly -
assumed that each of our many weapons against drug use can be
successfully applied only to one or the other side of the supply/demand
equation.
Supply reduction. by these lights. involves overseas crop eradica-
tion and associated foreign policy initiatives; interdiction of foreign-
manufactured drugs at our national borders: and domestic law enforce-
ment. For its part in this calculus, demand reduction is thought to
involve medical or other treatment for current drug users: education
about the dangers of drugs and techniques to resist them: and various
interdisciplinary, community-based prevention efforts. Demand reduc-
tion, then, is understood to be exclusively "therapeutic." and seeks to
help those in trouble - or those likely to get in trouble in the future.
Supply reduction, by contrast, is understood to be exclusively "puni-
tive," and seeks to bring stem sanctions to bear against those who grow,
refine. smuggle, or distribute illegal drugs.
This division of anti-drug strategy into two rigidly independent -
even opposed - tactical camps may do a good job of mirroring conflict-
ing public sentiment about the need to be hard-headed or tender-
hearted. But it makes a poor guide to policymaking and funding deci-
sions about the drug problem, because - as the preceding pages should
already have suggested - it does not do a good job of reflecting either
the complicated reality of the drug market or the actual effect specific
anti-drug initiatives can and do have on that market.
Granted. overseas and border activities against drugs work primar-
ily to reduce supply. But they can have an important. radiating effect on
demand. as well, because they make the purchase of certain imported
drugs more difficult - and therefore less likely. In much the same way,
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drug treatment and education work primarily to reduce demand, but in
so doing they may encourage suppliers to scale back production and
distribution in an effort to sustain consistent profits.
Domestic law enforcement is a special case. The sale and purchase
of drugs are both illegal. And so our criminal justice system is obliged to
ensure that neither aspect of the drug marketplace is left unpenalized
and therefore undeterred. In fact. a paramount target of law enforce-
ment activity - especially at the local level — must be the disruption of
those street markets for drugs in which retail demand and supply finally
meet in a combustible mix. So it stands to reason that properly
conceived law enforcement cannot be meaningfully assigned to any
uniquely demand- or supply-side role.
The proposed national strategy outlined in this report takes pains
to avoid the artificial and counter-productive distinctions so often drawn
among the various fronts necessary to a successful fight against epi-
demic drug use. Instead it seeks to draw each of them into full
participation in a coherent, integrated. and much improved program.
The next five chapters. taken together, describe a coordinated and bal-
anced plan of attack involving all basic anti-drug initiatives and agen-
cies: our criminal justice system; our drug treatment system; our
collection of education, workplace. public awareness. and community
prevention campaigns: our international policies and activities: and our
efforts to interdict smuggled drugs before they cross our borders. Two
subsequent chapters discuss a research and intelligence agenda de-
signed to support and sustain this overall strategy. And Appendix A
offers a series of quantified goals and measures of success - - each of
which this strategy, if fully implemented. can reasonably be expected to
achieve
No attempt should be made to disguise the fact that significant new
resources will be required to pay for the many proposals advanced in
this report. And no attempt is made here to deny that the Federal
government has a major role to play in providing them. Last February,
this Administration requested nearly $717 million in new drug budget
authority for Fiscal Year 1990. Now, after six months of careful study,
we have identified an immediate need for $1.478 billion more. With this
report, the Administration is requesting FY 1990 drug budget authority
totalling $7.864 billion - the largest single-year dollar increase in his-
tory. A detailed Federal implementation plan - and the budget tables
to accompany it - are included in Appendix B.
Appendix C provides a package of recommended State anti-drug
legislation. Appendix D discusses possible Federal designations of high
intensity drug trafficking areas, as mandated in the "Anti-Drug Abuse
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STATE 4 LOCAL
JUDGE REGGIE WALTON
Ph:673-2444 Ph:
State & Local Issues for ONDCP
1991 fiscal budget calls for $492 Million for state and local BUT IT
law enforcement. This is an increase of 228% over the
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last two years.
FEDS?.
80% of this will go to the states via block grants;
they will then distribute to counties and cities
There is also a $50 million discretionary fund that
will be directed at specific law enforcement
programs.
There are federally funded DEA Task Forces. They are composed
of DEA agents, state and local personnel.
There is the Organized Crime Task Force: 9 different federal
agencies; they work with state and local law enforcement
to attack sophisticated drug and money-laundering
enterprises
- We are addressing prison overcrowding.
In the process of assessing excess fedural land
for use as prisons
construction for
formsing on pregnant addite
grants for community prevention program