What effect does organized crime have on drug trafficking?
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Organized crime and drug trafficking are synonomous.\nIn today's drug trafficking everyone involved will eventually come under the control of organized crime,although drug trafficking is at its inception organized crime unto its own.\nOrganized crime, drug trafficking, and political protection are a scourge within our society that needs to be eliminated by each and every one of us.\nIdentify, report, and destroy, Aye!  Jose
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Drugs may have been the biggest impact.
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The Asia Foundation launched an Asia Region web portal (www.tipinasia.info) that enables government and non-governmental organizations in 10 countries to become more efficient and effective in combating trafficking in persons.\nFoe further details go to http://www.asiafoundation.org
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Human trafficking (the buying and selling of human beings for sex, work, etc.) is everywhere. There could even be instances of it where you live. Most cases of trafficking involve citizens of a particular country paying money in order to obtain passage into the U.S. (or other country) only to be trafficked and sold to the highest bidder. It has also been the cause of American citizens' disappearances in other countries. \n\nIt is estimated that more than 1 million people are trafficked annually around the world; some experts say it could be double that. U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports it has made 5,400 arrests and obtained 2,300 convictions in cases of human trafficking and smuggling since 2003.\n\nI personally have attended several conferences in and around the Philadelphia area on this topic. It is a problem that not many people are aware of, but is a growing problem in the U.S. and elsewhere. Big hot spots for trafficking include South Florida, Texas, and New York.
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This answer is mostly a matter of opinion as I don't have a job anywhere close to the DEA or any other law enforcement agency.  But it is based on years of Life Experience and the desire to be well informed.  Mostly, the reason drug trafficking has not been stopped in it's tracks is because of the money.  So many jobs would be eliminated and so many "donations and contributions" would be lost, that lawmakers aren't to willing to toughen the laws required to stop drug trafficking.  This unwillingness on behalf of our lawmakers makes it easier to bring drugs into the states.  Yes, the grunts out in the field are trying their hardest, but their hands are tied by the lawmakers.  Imagine if you will, a hot stove top burner.  You touch it and you learn to not touch it again.  Now if the burner is just warm, you're more likely to touch it again.  Traffickers are caught everyday but the penalties are so cool, that they just go back out and do it again.  Lawmaker know this, so they keep the penalties lenient.  So, yes.  Trafficking is allowed due to the Contributions it generates.
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Selling drugs is enough trouble by itself. The fact that someone dies for the drugs he sells could lead to murder 2. What you should do, at all times, is to let the law enforcement agencies that you know that someone sells drugs.
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crime is crime---whatever happened to the chain gangs---that might deter some criminals
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Thats an interesting one my friend.My belief,unfortunately is ,that they already are!\nPirates and bandits, as long as there was no harming of innocents, were held in some reverence thanks to the poor being unharmed. Usually it was the "rich" who were robbed.\nDrug gangs harm every pillar of society in the most undiscerning way.\nTheir legacy has led to a complete dumming down of society.  Keep them ignorant and addictive= POWER. Indirectly supported by some governments.Great line of questioning though .\nTake a look at http://thebaldchemist.blogspot.com for a view of life.Take care my friend.
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Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act \n\nThese are laws designed to erradicate organized crime
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The government by collecting taxes on the sales and by removing cash flow from organized crime!!
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The Ricco laws. \n\nOrigionally written to fight the Mafia. The law blatently violates the Constitution's search and seizure rules. It was felt the only way to defeat the Mafia was for the Government itself to violate the law. The Mafia fell because of turncoats in the Mafia rather than the Ricco laws but the laws stayed on the books despite being both unconstitutional and ineffective. \n\nInstead of repealing the Ricco law it was next applied to Drug dealers in the war on drugs. Frequently land owners would lose thier property because a tennent unknown to the building's owner was dealing drugs. A more blatent example is cops soon went out on the streets to pretend to be drug dealers. When somebody would attempt to buy drugs from them the car they were driving would be confiscated and auctioned off. This happened whether or not the driver owned the vehicle or if the vehicle was being knowingly used for this purpose by the owner. In short it was grand theft on a massive scale by local government. A clear abuse of authority. \n\nThe law today applies to all "organized" crime. That is if 3 or more people are involved in a "crimanal" endeavor. So most crime today comes under the Ricco laws and some prosecuters have used it to garner large sums of money. Of which there is no accountability since it is not part of the budget there is no comtroller oversight. It just joins a slush fund which I suspect is often abused. Such a system invites fraud.
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Most illegal drugs are cultivated by various communist or terrorist groups using slave labor.  Anyone who refuses is murdered.  Actually, murder, torture, rape etc. are routinely used to keep the slaves intimidated so they don't even think of causing trouble.  In places like North Korea and Cuba, its the government doing this to its people.  In places like Mexico and Columbia, various criminals do this while the local governments and police are powerless to stop them.  The drug money supplied by rich jackasses who do drugs, in the US and europe simply makes them too powerful to stop.
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Think about this:\n\nLegalizing drugs - cuts down on criminals.  no need for drug dealers, smugglers; people who purchase drugs can pay taxes on them, country gets payment for people's drug habits.
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that is a very difficult question.  It really depends because both are organized in a sense and both do things that are illegal; however terrorism is more of a fear tactic used to change the veiws of government officials or affect the decisions that they are making.  Terrorism main point is to make a statement, while organized crime, at least to me, wants to stay underground in a sense that they want to run their operations without getting noticed.
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Well the amount of money in taxes would certainly be a major factor....it's also arguable that crime on one hand would be significantly reduced for obvious reasons (decriminalisation) but then again would there be an increase in users and therefore crime related to obtaining money for these drugs?? Many criminal gangs working in the drug industry would be put out of business and a lot of profits from this activity funds other crimes such as people trafficking. A combination of selling certain drugs through licenced premises and a liberalisation of trade barriers for certain substances could actually benefit certain drug production for some of the world's poorest people.\n     It has been proved with the lowering of cannabis to grade C that usage has actually dropped....maybe an effect of making it less desirable as it doesn't carry the same position in youngsters minds (demand dropping when level of legality falls). Check out New Scientist Magazine for figures.\n    How would nation/ health care react  ...probably extremely negatively and in many cases for good reasons. Could it work? well for such a complicated matter with so many issues it would require a huge cost/benefit analysis and to implement such a system i would imagine is too expensive monetarily speaking. Read a bit of "Mr.Nice" for info on drug trafficking industry and ideas advocating this theory.
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Yeah \nThe term "mafia" describes a specific secret society in Sicily and their descendants in the United States of America where Sicilian organized criminals had spread by the early 20th century through immigration.\n\nMafia power peaked in the United States in the mid-20th century, until a series of FBI investigations in the 1970s and 1980s somewhat curtailed the Mafia's influence. Despite the decline, the Mafia and its reputation have become entrenched in American popular culture, portrayed in movies, TV shows, and even product commercials.\n\nToday the Italian-American Mafia remains the most powerful criminal organization operating in the USA and uses this status to maintain control over the majority of both Chicago's and New York City's criminal enterprises. It also has links to the more established organization from which it sprung, the original Sicilian Mafia.\n\nMafia power in Sicily is much more well established and complete. Corruption is widespread, and local government is almost an offshoot of the organization itself. Mafia influence in the national legislature has long been suspected, but never proven outright\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia
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None, It would not effect them in any way. We take oil now from Alaska and export it to Europe, best price. The energy companies wrote the legislation for republicans in Congress to rubber stamp. It's organized crime at it's Height.