Shared Responsability

U.S.-Mexico Policy Options for Confronting Organized Crime

Edited by  Eric L. Olson, David A. Shirk and Andrew Selee

First, the project sought to describe the challenges each country is facing in its attempts to deal with organized crime. For the United States, this has meant examining the nature of its enormous domestic market for illegal drugs, as well as efforts to reduce demand for these drugs. We also examined the state of efforts to disrupt the flow of money and weapons from the U.S. to Mexico that is fueling the violence and corruption in that country. For Mexico, it has meant gaining a deeper understanding of the institutional challenges the nation faces within its police forces, justice system, armed forces and with the press. A second goal was to gain a better understanding of binational efforts to work cooperatively to address these challenges. We examined the strategies each country is employing that build on the notion of “shared responsibility” so often emphasized by policy makers in both countries.Finally, we asked the authors to discuss, where feasible, possible policy options that might be useful to government authorities who must develop reasonable plans and strategies for dealing with this complex and confounding problem.

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