From Desroches’s study,it is quite evident that drug trafficking is a risky job to handle so the drugtraffickers will be highly alert about what they do and make sure that drugsavailability is always alive in our society. As drugs are a global issue andspreading everywhere just like a wildfire and taking over young generationslives, the government of all nation feelslike it needed to be controlled so theyintroduced different acts for drug prohibitions all around the world. Police startedfighting so hard to keep away more drugs flowing into our societies. Some of the prominent anti-drug acts that cameinto action in United Kingdom were “Dangerous Drug Act (1967), Drug TraffickingOffence Act, Central Drugs and Illegal Immigration Unit (Scotland) and Misuseof Drug Act (an act for controllingmisuse of drug prohibition acts) “(South, 2017) and some acts that wereprominent in USA are ” Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1930), US Repeals AlcoholProhibitions (1933), US Narcotics Control Act (1956), War on drugs (militaryintervention for the prohibition of drugsinitiated in 1971)” (South, 2017). With these prohibitions police also startedusing many strategies and planning to control drug use and reduce itsavailability on the streets.

War on drug policing was an unsuccessful militaryintervention program to control drugs as it fallen short in weakening thestreet level drug activities that were taking place because the accessibilityof drugs was too high on the street market and the price started fallingless than usual price (Cooper, 2016). According to Cooper “Evaluations ofspecific tactics, such as raids on crack houses and crackdowns, suggest that theireffects on drug availability are minimal, decay rapidly, and may displace drugactivity to other areas and increase drug-related violence” (2016).  When policing of drugs is not well organized enough to control it the drug-related crime rate will also peek up. “Violence related to drug selling is commonly seen in urban areas and it is an integral part of drug markets all around theworld”(Werb et al, 2010).

One of the most enlarging drug-related crime is DUI (driving under the influence), this might not cause problems forthe person driving but for public it willsurely cause problems, for instance, theperson under the influence can end up killing someone which consider undermurder charges and this will also cause property damages (Caulkins, 2014). Anotherand the most prominent reason why crimerates increases is due to the need for more money to buy drugs, drug addictoften act violent crimes for this reason, they get involved in drug traffickingas a result of this and other types of crimes related are fraud, theft,breaking into others property and robbery(Casavant et al, 2001). While theseviolent crimes are committed by men, women,on the other hand, makes money by working as prostitutes on the street to buydrugs, while these crimes are carried out by a drugaddict, it does not mean all drug addicts resort themselves to violent crimes to get drugs (Casavant et al, 2001).  It is not just drugs that pose a challenge tolaw and order but gangs too. Drugs and gangs are correlated in different waysbecause gangs are the reason why drug availability increases in our society. Beingin a gang gives a lot of benefits to youth, being a member creates a sense of identity, gives a sense of security and letthem make a lot of money.

The common crimes that we all know that gangs do arerobbery, vandalism, theft, coercion, kidnapping, killing and drug trafficking.Out of this, drug trafficking is the number one challenge they posing to thelaw and order system of the country.  Theyuse violence as a means to get their things done; it is very common to see agang controlling certain streets through violence to embellish their drugmarket and sales. “They also use violent crimes such as murder, rape, gun andknife offenses to spread fear in order to keep control of their territory and they are getting moreruthless ” (Morris, 2016).Researchers who have conducted studies on gangobserved that “joining a gang is a crucial life course transition thatfacilitates or enhances participation in violence” (Bellair, 2014).

This observationdoes not exclude gang followers and make a difference between those who selldrugs and those who do not trade it, hence it is really an inflexible topic to discuss and conclude about the relationshipbetween gangs, drug trade, and violence. Bellairet al described that “gang members are more violent when they occupy the statusof a drug seller (2014). An example ofthis statement is: