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WHEREAS, the National Security of the United States is threatened by the
influx of illicit narcotics and its detrimental affect on fami-
lies, communities and especially inner cities, and,
WHEREAS, a 1982 Rand Corporation study found that drug abusers committed
robberies on an average of 33.6 days, burglaries on 67.6 days and
other thefts on 65.8 days during each year they were addicted and
riot incarcerated, an average of 167 crime days a year, and,
WHEREAS, there are 500,000 heroin addicts in the United States, 25 million
people have used cocaine and 5 million are regular users of
cocaine, and approximately 40 million Americans routinely smoke
marijuana, and,
WHEREAS, four metric tons of heroin, 48 metric tons of cocaine and 12,000
metric tons of marijuana are smuggled into this country each year,
and,
WHEREAS in street value the heroin and cocaine that enters the country
annually is a multi-billion dollar business, and,
WHEREAS, the U. S. Coast Guard has only seven to ten boats patrolling the
Southeastern Coast and the Gulf of Mexico and the U. S. Customs
estimate it intercepts only one percent of the planes smuggling
cocaine, and,
WHEREAS, the narcotics problem in America is not a failure of state and
local governments but, rather, a failure of the Customs, diplo-
matic and international policing functions of the national govern-
ment, and,
WHEREAS, the Federal government is the only entity with the resources and
jurisdictions that adequately can pursue drug merchants wherever
they are found,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Fort Worth City Council strongly urges
Federal action by the Congress and the President to
1) Assign to the Department of Defense the mission of actively searching for
and interdicting smugglers _at,temptiny to bring narcotics into the United
States, and,
2) Amend the Posse Comitatus Act wherever necessary to allow the Department
of Defense to effectively carry out the mission of drug interdiction
through seizure of drugs and arrest of drug traffickers, and,
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3) Increase funding and staff for the Coast Guard, Drug Enforcement Adminis-
tration and Customs in a concerted effort to combat the increasing flow
of drugs into this country.
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS z5t DAY OF
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1985.
CITY OF FORT WORTS