§ 3002. FINDINGS.
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“The Congress hereby finds that— a balanced, coordinated, multifaceted strategy for combating the growing drug abuse and drug trafficking problem in the United States is essential in order to stop the flow and abuse of drugs within our borders; a balanced, coordinated, multifaceted strategy for combating the narcotics drug abuse and trafficking in the United States should include— increased investigations of large networks of drug smuggler organizations; source country drug eradication; increased emphasis on stopping narcotics traffickers in countries through which drugs are transshipped; increased emphasis on drug education programs in the schools and workplace; increased Federal Government assistance to State and local agencies, civic groups, school systems, and officials in their efforts to combat the drug abuse and trafficking problem at the local level; and increased emphasis on the interdiction of drugs and drug smugglers at the borders of the United States, in the air, at sea, and on the land; funds to support the interdiction of narcotics smugglers who threaten the transport of drugs through the air, on the sea, and across the land borders of the United States should be emphasized in the Federal Government budget process to the same extent as the other elements of a comprehensive antidrug effort are emphasized; the Department of Defense and the use of its resources should be an integral part of a comprehensive, natonal [national] drug interdiction program; the Federal Government civilian agencies engaged in drug interdiction, particularly the United States Customs Service and the Coast Guard, currently lack the aircraft, ships, radar, command, control, communications, and intelligence
(C3I)system, and manpower resources necessary to mount a comprehensive attack on the narcotics traffickers who threaten the United States; the civilian drug interdiction agencies of the United States are currently interdicting only a small percentage of the illegal, drug smuggler penetrations in the United States every year; the budgets for our civilian drug interdiction agencies, primarily the United States Customs Service and the Coast Guard, have not kept pace with those of the traditional investigative law enforcement agencies of the Department of Justice; and since the amendment of the Posse Comitatus Act ( 18 U.S.C. 1385 ) in 1981, the Department of Defense has assisted in the effort to interdict drugs, but they can do more.
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