Small town police on front lines of cartels' drug war costing Americans their lives

A small city in Alabama has become a "hot spot" for drugs, and police are determined to take back their community.

"These men and women, the vast majority of them grew up there," Lou Valoze, a retired agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), told Fox News Digital.

"These are residents who are fighting this war to protect their community, the community that they live in, that their kids are growing up in, that their friends are in," Valoze shared. "This is very personal to them.