Collateral Damage: A Public Housing Consequences of the 'War on Drugs'

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lahny Silva
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Collateral Damage

Collateral damage in the war on drugs: HIV risk behaviors among injection drug users

1999 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
RickyN. Bluthenthal ◽  
Jennifer Lorvick ◽  
AlexH. Kral ◽  
ElizabethA. Erringer ◽  
JamesG. Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Hiv Risk ◽  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Hiv Risk Behaviors ◽  
Injection Drug ◽  
Collateral Damage

scholarly journals The Inadequate Treatment of Pain: Collateral Damage from the War on Drugs

PLoS Medicine ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. e1001153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason W. Nickerson ◽  
Amir Attaran
Keyword(s):  
War On Drugs ◽  
Collateral Damage

They Don’t Care if We Die: The Violence of Urban Policing in Puerto Rico

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 1066-1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisol LeBrón
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Limited Life ◽  
Drug Economy

In this essay, I trace how punitive policing in Puerto Rico has deepened existing racial, spatial, and class-based inequalities and further limited life chances for some of Puerto Rico’s most vulnerable citizens. To demonstrate how policing intensified forms of violent exclusion, I focus on mano dura contra el crimen, or iron fist against crime, a law enforcement initiative that sought to eliminate drug-related crime and violence by targeting public housing and other low-income spaces around the island for joint military and police raids during the 1990s. I argue that mano dura promoted an uneven distribution of risk, harm, and death by tacitly allowing the proliferation of violence within economically and racially marginalized communities. Although law enforcement agents engaged in acts of intimidation, harassment, and brutality during mano dura operations, it is perhaps the measures they implemented to concentrate violence in low-income communities that most contributed to the premature death and proximity to harm that barrio and public housing residents experienced. Furthermore, police and other state officials positioned the alarmingly high levels of drug-related violence and death occurring within the confines of these classed and racialized urban spaces as a necessary by-product of the island’s “war on drugs.” Ultimately, police intervention under the auspices of protecting el pueblo puertorriqueño, or the Puerto Rican people, as well as those moments when police deliberately “failed” to prevent violence related to the informal drug economy resulted in greater exposure to harm and death for marginalized communities on the island.

Women, Drugs, and Violence in Sinaloa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Carey ◽  
Patricia Figueroa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Drug Trade ◽  
Collateral Damage ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Drug Trafficking Organizations ◽  
Women And Children

As the United States approaches the fiftieth anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s war on drugs and Mexico is going through the second decade of its war on drugs, the costs and ever-escalating violence are difficult to ignore. Despite the arrests, extraditions, and successful prosecutions of leaders of drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), the trillion dollars that have been spent in the United States and Mexico have done little to undermine the drug demand in the United States or protect Mexican citizens from increasing violence. With former Mexican president Felipe Calderon’s declaration of his own drug war, women have borne the increasing brunt of that violence. Certain women benefit from the lucrative drug trade due to their families’ involvement. Throughout the 20th century, women developed DTOs, but women have always had to fear violence from male competitors and law enforcement. Yet the majority of women who experience the drug trade experience it as users and victims. DTOs and their collaborators among the politicians and the police have acted with impunity. While legitimate actors such as police and politicians claim their support for security measures to protect women and children, these same actors have provided little empathy and support for victims. Women are both combatants in the drug trade and its collateral damage. Their experience with impunity combined with a lack of empathy for the countless victims on both sides of the border has led to a growing sense of hopeless along with growing resistance. Keyword: drug-trafficking

Collateral Damage

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
WILLIAM G. WILKOFF
Keyword(s):  
Collateral Damage

How Goes the "War on Drugs"?: An Assessment of U.S. Drug Problems and Policy

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan P. Caulkins ◽  
Peter Reuter ◽  
Martin Y. Iguchi ◽  
James Chiesa
Keyword(s):  
War On Drugs ◽  
Drug Problems
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