National Office of Drug Control Policy and the Current Threat Over the past decade, violence on the southwest border has become a national security concern. Much of the violence appears to stem from the competing growth and distribution networks that many powerful Mexican drug cartels operate today. The unfortunate byproduct of this crime reaches many citizens of Mexican border communities in the form of indiscriminate shootings, stabbings, and hangings among street gangs, amounting to approximately 6,500 deaths in 2009 alone (AllGov, 2012). The same danger now stretching across the border regions of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and California has the potential for alarming escalation. Yet despite the violence, increasingly brazen behavior continues to grow, as does America's drug hunger. Although drug-related violence requires law enforcement to focus on supply reduction, the Office of National Drug Control Policy should shift its current policymaking efforts only to drug demand reduction because treatment and prevention are inadequate and the strategy has evolved little over the past three decades. Role of the ONDCPPresident Reagan established the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) following passage of the Anti-Abuse Act of 1988 amid growing risk that drug addiction would become more pervasive in local of work and in American schools. The legislation established the need for the federal government to make a good faith effort to maintain drug-free workplaces, schools, and drug abuse and rehabilitation programs for many users (Eddy, 2005). The ONDCP's initial goal was to curb the growing drug threat from drug cartels operating throughout South America, in...... middle of document ......see from http:/ /www.gao.gov /assets/100/97472.pdfOffice of National Drug Control Policy. (nd).AllGov: Everything our government actually does. Retrieved March 18, 2012, from http://www.allgov.com/Agency/Office_of_National_Drug_Control_PolicyReduce the Threat, Incidence and Prevalence of Violent Crime and Drug Trafficking: Fiscal Year 2011 Overview. (2011).Intelligence (p.6). Washington, DC Retrieved from http://www.justice.gov/jmd/2011factsheets/pdf/reduce-drug-trafficking.pdfRoberts, M., Trace, M., & Klein, A. (2004). Law enforcement and supply reduction: Ratio three (p. 15). Retrieved from http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/pdf/report_lawenforce.pdfWhite, F.E. (1988). Memorandum from Frank E. White to Donald L. Ashton, Drug Enforcement Agency, on Operation Snowcap dated March 8, 1988 (p. 12). Retrieved from http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB69/part1.html