| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Illegal
Protecting communities: Responding to the impact of urban drug markets
Protecting communities: Responding to the impact of urban drug markets
This paper looks at the challenge posed by urban drug markets, particularly the impact on crime, safety, and development. It combines a granular local analysis – based on research as well as interviews with current and former gang members, police, drug users, social workers, court employees and representatives of civil society – with a broader transnational perspective. The study focuses in particular on drug markets in the cities of Cali, Colombia; Chicago, US; Cape Town, South Africa; Karachi, Pakistan; Kingston, Jamaica, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (globalinitiative.net, Schweiz, 09.07.2020)
Protecting communities: Responding to the impact of urban drug markets