Drug Seizures Along the US-Mexico Border, from the Center of Investigative Journalism, examines the total as well as types of drugs that bring been seized beingness smuggled across the 2,000 mile edge betwixt the the States as well as Mexico.
The map plots 128,169 drug seizures made past times the U.S. Border Patrol betwixt January 2005 as well as October 2011. You tin lead which type of drug is plotted on the map (marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin as well as other) using the buttons at nowadays beneath the map. The map too includes a timeline then that you lot tin compare the position out of each type of drug seized past times year.
The total of each drug seized at each U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint is represented past times the size of the circle on the map. If you lot lead a checkpoint station on the map you lot tin too stance details on the full position out of seizures as well as the average weight of each seizure.
