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An agent who isn’t worried about making rent is a whole lot less likely to be tempted by a duffel bag of money.
If cartels start using agents families as a bargaining chip, then law enforcement has to be able to protect those families, no questions asked.
Solid protection programs can take one of the cartel’s favorite and nastiest tools right off the table.
And that doesn’t just mean the agent who flipped, but the entire network that helped them do it.
By using terrorism laws, which is now on the table since they’ve been labeled foreign terrorist groups, you can bring way heavier penalties than your typical corruption charges.
We need tighter teamwork between US and Mexican law enforcement, sharing intel on who’s been bought, and hitting the financial networks that fund this whole mess with coordinated strikes.
Technology can be the secret weapon that helps spot and stop the rot that might otherwise go completely unnoticed.
But for every victory, we have to ask how many other shipments slipped right through because somebody was on the cartel’s payroll.
How much inside info was leaked? How many raids were a total bust because the cartels got a friendly heads up? Thanks for tuning in.
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