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Law Enforcement to Fight Organized Crime

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Law Enforcement to Fight Organized Crime

The USA has been known to have several organized criminal groups such as the La Cosa

Nostra, which is an Italian-American Mafia. Subsequently, organized crime groups have been

linked to some counter-terrorism attacks that happened in the U.S.A soil in many ways.

Organized criminal groups are categorically led by highly centralized enterprises or individuals

that want to use the criminal groups as an epicenter of engaging in illegal activities. Moreover,

most terrorist groups are politically motivated to create a lot of disturbance to people causing

wavering social, peaceful co-existence between communities. Therefore, it is considered crucial

for law enforcement forces to bulk their resources on fighting organized criminal activities in the

country and countering external terrorism threats.

Organized crimes are typically criminal activities that are significantly planned,

influenced, and controlled by powerful groups of people or enterprises that carry out illegal

activities on a large scale. In most cases, organized crimes may be transnational, national, or

local groupings of highly influential people. Over the years, drug conspiracies and drug loads

have increasingly been linked to financing and organizing criminal activities in the USA to illicit

profit through illegal and often violent methods. Consequentially, drug trafficking is related to

organized groups' actions because drug trafficking, arms smuggling, extortion, theft, and

financial crime are relatively used as means to generate large amounts of money to help finance

the operational activities of the groups. Additionally, organized criminal groups do not obtain

finances for their illegal activities legitimately like it is with the other enterprises.

Organized crimes in the USA have been traditionally organized within the country by

transnational groups such as the Italian Mafia, Russian Mafia, the Japanese Yakuza, and the

Chinese Tongs. These groups of transnational organized crimes in America have been operating
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through most of the 20th century. Moreover, these groups have been actively engaging in illicit

criminal activities like financial crime, counterfeiting, tax evasion, murder, violence, human

trafficking, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and several other uncountable illegal activities in

America. In the USA, the Japanese Yakuza group operates on a large scale in Hawaii, California,

and New York City, where there are many Japanese immigrants. The Yakuza are well-organized

criminal groups that avoid involving themselves in petty crimes that only catch the local police's

attention but involve themselves both in legitimate and illegal businesses that fetch substantial

financial profits for them.

Also, the group is led and managed by an able leader who understands the philosophical

needs and influences of the criminal group in Japan and across other countries such as the USA.

The Yakuza are being led by Kenichi Shinoda, who is the current “kumicho” supreme kingpin

for the Japanese leading crime group. Also, the group participates in several money-making

activities such as gambling, smuggling banned goods such as drugs, firearms, sex-trafficking,

and other illegal activities that provide the organization with illicit profit. The organization has

also been linked to the promotion of pornographic materials and prostitution. However, Yakuza’s

crime group has been facing contentious competition from other organized groups in the USA,

such as the Italian Mafias. The rivalry between the Yakuza's and the Italian's Mafias have existed

for years, influenced by the scramble for the resources.

The Yakuza organize illegal criminal activities both in the USA and Italy, which has

intensively increased the rivalry between the two organized criminal groups. The Italian

organized gang criminal groups have continuously ensured that the Yakuza operations are

minimal around Chicago by providing that they recruit fewer people into the group, take lesser

business opportunities in the region, and fight their members whenever possible. Primarily, when
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two or more organized criminal groups contest for the available minimal resources in the area,

they are forced to develop ways to protect themselves from extortion by creating a fierce rivalry

between them and their competitors in the business. Therefore, elimination of the competitors

becomes the only option of ensuring that there is little competition between

firms.

The American authorities have been facing constant security threats from transnational

organized criminal groups from the Mexican drug trafficking organizations for years. Drug

addiction and abuse in the USA have increased over the years, and the efforts to subdue the rate

of drug addiction in the USA fail because of the most significant threat posed by the Mexican

drug traffickers. The Mexican drug loads have succeeded in diversifying their businesses into

crimes of extortion, human smuggling, and oil theft to help further their supply chains and attain

maximum financial credibility needed to facilitate their illegal criminal activities.

Comprehensively, the Mexican drug cartel poses a threat to both USA security and Mexican

security, but the American people are the most vulnerable group of people because the Mexican

drug traffickers expanded their controls of the opioids market.

Nevertheless, the USA government has successfully managed the influence of Mexican

drug cartels operating their activities in the USA by ensuring that they arrest the leaders

managing the organization's operations. For instance, in 2019, Joaquin "El Chapo” Guzman was

captured and sentenced to life imprisonment in the USA. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was the

leader for a long-dominant Sinaloa Cartel group in Mexico, which had greatly expanded its drug

operations activities in the American soil over the years. Significantly, in 2019 the American law

enforcement forces bulked their resources towards ensuring that they fight the Mexican drug

cartels by immensely carrying out arrests of most of them. The USA authorities arrested
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individuals who dealt directly or indirectly with Mexican drug cartels like Genaro Garcia Luna, a

former head of public security in the Felipe Calderon. Genaro Garcia Luna was arrested for

taking bribes from the Sinaloa cartels.

Historically, the American people have always been targeted by local and international

terrorist attackers. Occasionally, the 9/11 terrorist attack on the USA became on o the most

significant security threat that the USA has ever faced. Firstly, the incident was organized by the

Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda which was executed by the American citizen against his fellow

American people. The American terrorist threats initiatives may be associated with political,

social, or historical reasons affiliated with world wars antagonism. Further, the history of

terrorist attacks linked to the American people was ideologically motivated by right-wing

extremism. For instance, religious extremism was closely related to the case of suicide attacks

carried out by international terrorists in the September 11 attacks on the USA soil. Furthermore,

the USA's September 11 attack was the major successful terror attack in the USA, and ever since,

the USA government has been remarkable in its counter-terror activities.

Unfortunately, increased technological development has continuously increased the viability of

terrorist attacks across the globe. Therefore, the USA federal government and law enforcement

authorities should always be on the look-out for any political or religiously insinuated terror

attacks against the American people. Over the years, the FBI has been involved in investigating

and siphoning terrorism groups that are always planning against the USA government or people.

More so, the federal government is giving the FBI the authority to select criminal groups and

individuals to appear on the Department of Justice to confess against their illegal criminal acts.

The FBI has collectively engaged its resources in identifying criminal enterprises or groups of

individuals that have formed criminal hierarchy or comparable structures involved in significant
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criminal activity. Primarily, all government law enforcers must ensure to bulk their resources

against terrorism and organized criminal groups in the country.

On the whole, organized criminal groups in the USA are enterprises with ill intentions to

exploit the government resources illegally. The activities of criminal organizations are greatly

influenced because of the financial depth of the criminal groups. Therefore, for the FBI to

successfully fight against terrorism or any organized criminal groups, the government must cut

the financial obligations of most criminal organizations. The bureau should also increase the

training proficiency of its agents to develop into more experienced and coordinated investigation

authority. Necessarily, global powers should work together to ensure that the fight against

terrorism and organized criminal groups are handled carefully and successfully.