Controlling Organized Crime
Controlling Organized Crime
CJA/384
SherrylRoten-West
February 18, 2013
Controlling Organized Crime Many years ago people where able to move away from organized crime in order to keep their family safe, but today there is nowhere else to go. Organized crime is everywhere in the world and it is only getting worse. There is so much money and drug laundering, along with bank heist, robberies, and violence going on from the different organized crime groups that we do not know where organized crime starts and where the organized crime ends. “Organized crime threatens peace and human security, violates human rights and undermines economic, social, cultural, political and civil development of societies around the world” (UNODC, 2013). When there are a lot of criminal activities going on in an area the people who live there become on edge. People, who have lived there for so long, then want to move and the value of the property starts to go down. Members of the community are often threatened or intimidated by organized crime groups, which keeps them from feeling safe in their own home. Another thing is that when a person is in an organized crime group and they have conflict with rivals, their families often become the targets and victims of vicious crimes. There are even people who are forced into this life style by members of certain groups. Organized crime has managed to bring many organizations together that would have never been considered at one point. There are both good and bad relationships that have been established. Within the good relationships “the FBI is involved with the Italian American Working Group, which meets every year. The group addresses organized crime, money laundering, international terrorism, illegal immigration cooperating witnesses, drug smuggling, art theft, extradition matters, and cigarette smuggling” (FBI, 2011). On the other hand, there are often members of law enforcements that work with several of the organized
CJA/384
SherrylRoten-West
February 18, 2013
Controlling Organized Crime Many years ago people where able to move away from organized crime in order to keep their family safe, but today there is nowhere else to go. Organized crime is everywhere in the world and it is only getting worse. There is so much money and drug laundering, along with bank heist, robberies, and violence going on from the different organized crime groups that we do not know where organized crime starts and where the organized crime ends. “Organized crime threatens peace and human security, violates human rights and undermines economic, social, cultural, political and civil development of societies around the world” (UNODC, 2013). When there are a lot of criminal activities going on in an area the people who live there become on edge. People, who have lived there for so long, then want to move and the value of the property starts to go down. Members of the community are often threatened or intimidated by organized crime groups, which keeps them from feeling safe in their own home. Another thing is that when a person is in an organized crime group and they have conflict with rivals, their families often become the targets and victims of vicious crimes. There are even people who are forced into this life style by members of certain groups. Organized crime has managed to bring many organizations together that would have never been considered at one point. There are both good and bad relationships that have been established. Within the good relationships “the FBI is involved with the Italian American Working Group, which meets every year. The group addresses organized crime, money laundering, international terrorism, illegal immigration cooperating witnesses, drug smuggling, art theft, extradition matters, and cigarette smuggling” (FBI, 2011). On the other hand, there are often members of law enforcements that work with several of the organized