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Going after the Cartels - 727Sky - 05-17-2025
It is about time
Quote:A hidden war is being fought by America to totally eliminate the cartel in states no one would suspect. Because The frontline in the war against the cartel has shifted far north to Colorado, Utah, and even all the way to Montana where there is a 50% increase in substances.
RE: Going after the Cartels - FCD - 05-18-2025
(05-17-2025, 11:11 PM)727Sky Wrote: It is about time
Quote:A hidden war is being fought by America to totally eliminate the cartel in states no one would suspect. Because The frontline in the war against the cartel has shifted far north to Colorado, Utah, and even all the way to Montana where there is a 50% increase in substances.
Yeah, the gangs and cartels are moving into rural areas where the people aren't. We already have them moving into rural areas like ours. Our closest town about 12 miles away doesn't even have a single stoplight. And just recently they made a major gang and drug bust just a couple miles from us. This isn't the first either. They seized like 400 lbs. of meth and a massive stockpile of firearms, like (60) semi-automatic rifles and 100k rounds of ammo. Luckily, they caught these guys flat footed in an undercover sting operation.
I recently purchased some Level IIIA body armor...just in case. Gawd forbid I ever have to get into a gunfight to defend the place, but the local Sheriff's department has already advised us they are too understaffed to respond in a timely fashion (i.e. maybe an hour and a half if lucky, more likely four hours). And, they won't respond at all until they have 'sufficient' backup (which I have witnessed personally; they hung back until they had about 10 guys). So, we're on our own.
The real-deal body armor ain't cheap (not like the Chinese stuff I wouldn't dare trust my life to). I hope it will be a purchase I never need to use, but that's a heck of a lot better than needing it and not having it. I've seen some tests on the Chinese stuff, and some of it tests out 'okay', but the problem is the quality is all over the place even with the same manufacturer. (Sorry, got a little off-topic there).
RE: Going after the Cartels - EndtheMadnessNow - 05-19-2025
RAND Corp. experts making a case for advanced technology & Shadow Wolves...
Quote:Protecting Our Borders: Leveraging Technological Assets and Local Knowledge in Remote Communities
Along its northern and southern borders—some areas of which are vast, often forbidding wilderness—the United States confronts threats from foreign adversaries, their proxies, and transnational criminal organizations. These groups increasingly employ sophisticated surveillance technology to enable human and drug trafficking and other activities. The United States needs to fight back with more advanced technological tools combined with knowledge of the terrain from tribal populations or other communities around the borderlands.
Collaborative law enforcement relationships with Indigenous communities aren't new. A prime example is the partnership with the Shadow Wolves, a specialized unit of Tohono O'odham Nation members, who have served in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona for five decades. They are the only Native American tactical unit assigned to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and rely on centuries-old tracking skills.
The Shadow Wolves specialize in detecting and countering TCOs (transnational criminal organizations), particularly their narcotics and human trafficking operations, through intelligence gathering and direct interdiction. The Shadow Wolves have achieved significant results, including large seizures of narcotics, disrupting trafficking routes into the United States, and mitigating escalating violence.
The United States could have more units like the Shadow Wolves, and they could be even more effective if equipped with advanced technology such as UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones) for observation and reporting. Such tools could serve multiple missions: search and rescue, monitoring of natural hazards, observation and tracking of subsistence resources, and local law enforcement. This dual-use approach could create benefits for tribal and local communities while also equipping them to be part of the effort to detect and mitigate threats to the United States from beyond our borders.
Working with local forces, especially to counter drug-trafficking cartels, is not unique to the United States. Various defense groups emerged in Colombia in the 1990s to combat the cartels. That is also happening today in Mexico.
RE: Going after the Cartels - 727Sky - 05-20-2025
RE: Going after the Cartels - F2d5thCav - 05-20-2025
At FCD-- was that drug bust the event you mentioned at a neighbor's house a few months ago ?
At ETMN-- They should tell the tribes as well it is okay to take scalps and the federal government will pay for them!
RE: Going after the Cartels - FCD - 05-20-2025
(05-20-2025, 09:58 AM)F2d5thCav Wrote: At FCD-- was that drug bust the event you mentioned at a neighbor's house a few months ago ?
At ETMN-- They should tell the tribes as well it is okay to take scalps and the federal government will pay for them!
No, that event was at our 'next door' neighbor (they're about a 3/8 mile away). Turned out it was a giant overreaction by authorities to a rumor (kind of like a SWATing almost). Someone apparently called in the grandson who lives there saying there was an active meth lab on the property, and there was a shootout going on. Well, there was no meth lab, and the neighbor and some of his buddies had been shooting the day before on a range he has built on his property. Nobody was home at the time it all went down. They'd gone camping. And, apparently they had some gas cans improperly stored in a shipping container they were using for storage (which is what prompted the big Fire Dept. response).
The event I referred to above happened about 20 miles west of here.