I posted the link in another thread. But, here...check it out.

http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2009/mar/mexico_cartel/index.html?sc=emaf

Oh...it is a map telling where the mexican cartel gangs are in your state..if any.

Kat

http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2009/mar/mexico_cartel/index.html?sc=emaf

I don't like loads of links in my browser, going to check this out now. Thanks!

Already knew quite a bit of that out of the west. Used to be into that underground scene and cartel is rampant all over the west, especially in California.

Unbelievable!

Thanks, Kat.

Texas and Cali look like they have the measels.

Easy border entry.

California is a big money game, Texas is a large distribution spot. Go too California and make money, go too Texas and your product gets out to the rest of the country. Easier to think of it in terms of ports, Texas being the major distribution port and California being the major profit port.

I clicked on every state. I was amazed to find them as prevalent as they are.
Sooo, guess it isn't just the border towns..eh?
Kat

don't remind me lol. i'm taking my nerf gun down there and stopping them

Nope, but that is the entry point. Which is why there are more hot spots in Texas, California like I said is just a big money pot. But they are well everywhere, even in Wyoming (this is a rather big money spot as well).

Bein's the Feds knew where they were, they'd have already busted them.
Only reason I could imagine why they are intact is, some of the money they generate is good for the economy.

Here's a link to gangs per-capita per State. They deal big time drugs also.
http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs32/32146/appa.htm#Map1
Source: National Drug Threat Survey 2008; field program specialist field surveys of state and local law enforcement 2008; and U.S. Census population estimates 2006.
Note the date. Bigger today?

If that site is accurate and there are some here in Hendersonville.
They are awful quiet!

we have them in Dallas and Ft Worth...i'm in the middle

They move in and out, by the time the Feds had a tag on the location they already moved. For the most part the local law enforcement is feeding them info, this is the cartel not some junkie selling dimebags they have money and they have a powerful arm to flex when needed.

Cartel does not mean gangs. They are a mafia.

Not just any mafia, this mob has immunity.

Example;
Bloods, Crips, Ms13, Mexican mafia, are not dime baggers, they are well organized and established.

Hendersonville's population is 11,953!
I think they'd stand out a little!

The closest to the cartel is the Mexican Mafia, only because most of them move with the same immunity the cartel has. The rest are small time compared to the cartel, trust me.

The Obama administration is pledging a major new law enforcement push to try to keep the Mexican drug cartels at bay — both in Mexico and here in the U.S. Violence between the gangs and confrontations with authorities have taken thousands of lives in Mexico in recent years, and there's growing concern in the U.S. that the bloodshed will spill over the border. The administration is even considering sending in the National Guard.

While these moves may increase security along the border, they won't keep the Mexican cartels out of the U.S. That's because they're already here, and well-established.

The Justice Department says the cartels now have operations in at least 230 American cities, up from 50 in 2006. Many of those are smaller, agricultural cities with Hispanic communities — places like Mount Vernon, Wash. Less than an hour from the Canadian border, it's the last place you might expect to encounter the Mexican cartels. But Skagit County Sheriff's Deputy Chris Kading says the cartels are definitely here.

The Mexican cartels have a near-monopoly on the distribution of wholesale quantities of drugs in most of the country now. Whether it's crystal meth by the pound or cocaine by the kilo, odds are it was supplied by the cartels and sold by their middlemen in places like this. Street-level dealers, on the other hand, often are not Mexican, or even Hispanic.

It's a pattern seen around the country: The cartels use Hispanic communities as cover — small towns like Pocatello, Idaho, and Oklahoma City. But Kading says you won't find the cartel bosses up here.

"These are the storekeepers, the worker bees, the disposable people. If they get caught, they get caught, there's four more who'll take their place," he says.

It went on to say that they stay quieter here in the United States. Due to living in neighborhoods with their own families and laying low.

Kat

Your not understanding, they don't stand out that isn't apart of their MO. They have to lay low, they don't make money in prison or dead.