g to obtain money for drugs (p. 6).
Walchak asserts that this drug-related violence translates into arsons, car bombs, murders, drive-by shootings, and other random acts "that threaten and terrorize a community. . . . [often] designed simply to frighten innocent citizens enough to ensure that they refrain from calling the police" (p. 6).
In response to this urban terrorism, agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have created response units called "Mobile Enforcement Teams" (METs) designed to target specific individuals that have been identified by state or local officials as drug traffickers or violent drug offenders. Walchak (1996) maintains that in its first year, these DEA METs "made significant contributions to 24 communities" which lacked the local resources to confront the problem. But when these persons are "dislodged" from one community as Walchak puts it, what guarantee is there that they don't just set up shop in the next (Economist, 1988, p. 32)? That, too, is part and parcel of the debate.
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