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Dear Friend:
I am pleased to let you know that San Diego County
will be receiving funds from the Department of Justice to help
fight narcotics activity at the border. Both the County of San
Diego and Chula
Vista have been notified that they will
receive funding.
The County
of San Diego
will receive almost $5 million to create a Border Uniformed
Suppression Team, or BUST. This team will focus on drug smuggling
and border-related crime in collaboration with federal, regional,
state and local law enforcement agencies. The goal is to combat
narcotics smuggling and related violence with a highly visible,
uniformed patrol along the border and within border communities.
Funding will also be provided to support better forensic evidence
technologies to link firearms to border-related violent crime and
for a better prosecution of perpetrators.
In Chula Vista, the nearly $3 million will help to integrate the
work of the San Diego Sheriff’s Department, the San Diego
Police Department, the San Diego District Attorney’s Office,
the National City Police Department and the Chula Vista Police
Department. It will support personnel costs to coordinate joint
efforts to stop cross-border narcotics traffic and to focus the
work of district attorneys on prosecuting drug criminals.
Across the nation, communities struggle with the negative
consequences of illegal drug use, including high crime rates,
neglected and endangered children, lost productivity, shattered
families, and more. While work to reduce illegal drug use will take
work on many fronts, I support improving efforts to stop drugs and
related violence at the border. This represents significant funding
in that effort.
Sincerely,
Barbara Boxer
United States Senator
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