The US Justice Department Releases their 2011 Budgets

Posted by Karri Gallaugher on March 5, 2010
Mar 052010

Earlier this week the US Department of Justice released their budget requests for 2011. The DEA’s budget request was over two billion.  The National Drug Intelligence Center, employs about 340 people and does most of the computer intelligence work of the DEA by scanning seized computers from suspected drug traffickers. They are requesting $44,580,000 for 2011. The Criminal Division of the Department of Justice is asking for $39,680,000 specifically to reduce the threat, use and related violence of illegal drugs. The US Attorney’s office is asking for $733,322,000 specifically to pursue cases involving illegal drugs.

Did you think that all those forfeiture laws were just about making the DEA rich? Well, did you ever think that expenses relating to property seizures, management, and disposal including investigative expenses are pretty steep? The Departments of Justice’s assets and forfeiture fund will need $780 million to get that messy job done next year. The Interagency Crime and Drug enforcement, the people responsible for requesting military help if needed and working with other governments in cases of drug trafficking, like the Marc Emery case, is asking for $579,319,000.

The FBI would like to spend some $91 million of their $4.5 billion dollar budget on drug crimes. It is impossible to identify exactly how much of this requested budget will be solely devoted to marijuana. All illegal drugs are lumped together. Some will be spent on cocaine, meth-amphetamine and others, but we know that the majority of this budget will be spent on the number-one choice of illicit substances. Most of the 4 billion, 357 million, 129 thousand dollars of your money will be spent by the Federal Agents of the United States of America to persecute drug users. When it is all down in black and white it looks like the prohibition of cannabis use for American adults is really a jobs program for law enforcement. Maybe that explains why the police are compelled to let lawmakers know they are against cannabis law reform.

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