The Influence Of Organized Crime

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The awareness that we have in organized crime today helps us prepare for its ever changing ways. There has been many situations that have led us to better understand organized crime and it tactics. The awareness has been brought to our attention by specific task forces, that over the years have done nothing but concentrate on bringing down organize crime and it element. World organizations have brought their resources together to combat this destructive group of criminals. Although today there are more organization operating in organized crime than in the 1920s, and they are more sophisticated today than they were then, but so is the law enforcement, and the government is more involved than they were then. Specific laws have been put in place

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