Drugs, gangs, sex offenders and inmates

On the National Drug Intellegence Center website is the National Drug Threat Assessment 2007 page. It has some interesting things in it; one being that Des Moines is listed as the first principal distribution center in the eastern half of the region for illicit drugs. They list Methamphetamine as the greatest drug threat; and also powder and crack cocaine, Mexican black tar and Mexican brown powder herion. They also mention the involvement of Mexican and Asian gangs.

Methamphetamine production is declining throughout the region; however, Mexican DTOs have more than supplanted lost domestic production with increasing quantities of low cost, high purity ice methamphetamine produced in Mexico. Consequently, drug-related crimes including identity theft, retail theft, burglary, forgery, and currency counterfeiting often linked to increased availability and abuse of ice are increasing.
Variations on National trends is also listed for this area.

Also the United States Department of Justice has a National Sex Offender Public Website where you can check for sex offenders by state.

And on the Federal Bureau of Prisons website is a federal inmate locator. Of course these sites have links to other things also.