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	Introduction Strategic Objective #1: Strategic Goal 1 Strategic Goal 2 Strategic Goal 3 Strategic Objective #2: Strategic Goal 4 Strategic Goal 5 Strategic Goal 6 Strategic Goal 7 Strategic Objective #3: Strategic Goal 8 PART Status
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I. Public Benefit

Americans and our global partners face growing security threats, both at home and abroad, from international terrorist networks and international criminal enterprises. In America alone, illegal drugs impose a staggering toll, killing more than 19,000 Americans annually and costing more than $160 billion in law enforcement costs, drug-related heath care, and lost productivity. This is in addition to the wasted lives, the devastating impact on families, schools, and communities, and the generally corrosive effect of illegal drugs on public institutions.

International crime groups also threaten U.S. and global partner interests in a stable world system. International trafficking in persons, smuggling of migrants and contraband, money laundering, cyber crime, theft of intellectual property rights, trafficking in small arms, and other offenses cost U.S. taxpayers and businesses billions of dollars each year and undermine rule of law in both developing and developed nations.

The events of 9/11 and their aftermath highlight the close connections among international terrorists, drug traffickers, and transnational criminals. All three groups seek out weak states with feeble judicial systems, whose governments they can corrupt or even dominate. Such groups jeopardize peace and freedom, undermine the rule of law, menace local and regional stability, and threaten the U.S. and its friends and allies.

To meet these challenges, the Department of State and USAID support a robust and comprehensive range of programs that foster international cooperation to help stop these threats before they reach U.S. soil, and to mitigate these threats within the borders of our global partners. The Department and USAID work with other U.S. Government agencies and foreign governments to break up drug trafficking and other international crime groups, disrupt their operations, arrest and imprison their leaders, and seize their assets.

On the diplomatic level, the Department works with the United Nations, the European Union, the Organization of American States, the Group of Eight Industrialized States, and other international and regional bodies to set international counter-drug, anti-crime and counter-terrorist standards, foster cross-border law enforcement cooperation, and deny safe havens to crime, drug and terrorist groups.

II. Selected Performance Trends

III. Strategic Context

Shown below are the performance goals, initiatives/programs, and the major resources, bureaus and partners that contribute to accomplishment of the International Crime and Drugs strategic goal. Acronyms are defined in the glossary at the back of this publication.

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