Discuss some of the nontraditional drug techniques used by law enforcement officers and agencies

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Answer 1

Answer: Since 1985, the DEA has used a tactic that has since been called a drug courier profile (known as Operation Pipeline). Basically, it involves agents observing suspected drug traffickers and developing a pattern of behavior typical of those who use commercial airlines or public highways for drug trafficking. Airport detentions have now expanded to the highways, where the DEA's Operation Pipeline identifies vehicles and their occupants who seem to "fit" a certain set of criteria common to those who transport drugs or drug money across the country. Because of the increasingly high profits of the drug trade, the practice of asset forfeiture has become an essential tool in drug control. Generally, the theory behind asset forfeiture is to take the profit out of illicit drug sales by seizing money or property that was either used to facilitate a drug crime or acquired with illicit drug revenues. Today, in addition to federal forfeiture laws, most state laws also provide for seizure of assets in drug cases. Although federal seizure laws have been used effectively since the late 1960s, the locus for forfeiture on the federal level is now the 1984 Comprehensive Crime Control Act (CCCA), which provides a revised civil provision for asset forfeiture.