The article “Shuttling Between Nations, Latino Gangs Confound the Law”, written by Ginger Thompson, was very informational to me. The counterculture in the article is gang members. Gang members are the counterculture because they are not the most powerful, influential, or widespread on the earth. Gang members are not respected and often times treated terrible. Gang members are not listened to and are supposed to obey the laws of the dominant culture.…
The MS-13 gang, well known as Mara Salvatrucha 13, is one of the most organized and violently dangerous gangs in the United States. The gang was established in the 1980, in the predominately Spanish speaking parts of Los Angeles, initially starting off with refugees who were in nature calm and in control. However, some Mexican immigrants began their power guiding and controlling these individuals into an underworld organization, which quickly began to harden the individuals. Once this occurred in the El Salvadorian neighborhoods, the immigrants wanted to organize themselves, so they decided to come up with a name for themselves.…
In comparison to other countries around the world, the United States reported “33,000 violent street, motorcycle, and prison gang activity in the U.S."(Donnelley, 2014). There are estimated to be more than 1.4 million gang…
The United States is experiencing an increase in Transnational Organized Crime (TOC), particularly from the Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13. President Trump identified this organization as a direct threat the U.S. national security during his campaign for office. President Trump reiterated this in the State of Union address in January 2018. Mara Salvatrucha’s rapid growth and transnational connections create a violent threat to the Nation Security of the United States. This essay will address the threats posed by MS-13 to the United States.…
The United States currently has the number one incarceration rate in the world and in history. According to the Business Insider, there are currently 2.4 million people behind bars, which is the highest in the world. When a Barclays Analyst toured a private prison looking for investment opportunities; it declared a ‘War on Drugs.” The areas that began to get targeted were areas highly populated by Hispanics and African Americans and in financial constraints. Despite the fact that there are more drugs being used on college campuses, yacht clubs, and country clubs.…
The background and structure of organized crime is important to understand first. Organized crime is when there is a group effort to do some form of illegal activity (Lavorgna, Lombardi, and Sergi 276). This type of crime has been a widespread problem in Chicago since the Al Capone era in the 1920’s (Lindberg 47). During the Capone era, prohibition opened the door for smuggling and trafficking alcohol (Peter Chronology). Organized crime has evolved since then and now covers a multitude of crimes.…
Col Belote, The old television series, Breaking Bad, captures an organized crime idea the best. Walter White was asked if he was in the meth business or money business, and he answered, “ Neither. I’m in the empire business.” I interrupt this statement to mean; organized crime’s key to success is utilizing logistical infrastructure to smuggle people, drugs, and weapons.…
America is the country with the highest crime rate in the world. There are approximately 12 million crimes committed in the United States every single year. That is by far the worst in the world. 2 No other nation has more than about 6 million reported crimes per year. But at the same time, USA’s people are having serious problems of crimes.…
Likewise, Mexico is run by drug cartels. The New York Times states that, a ¨...kilo sells for upwards of 100,000-more than its weight in gold.¨"meaning they earn 100,000 dollars for selling one kilo of marijuana,heroin,and meth. The Mexican Drug War is currently taking place in Mexico and is affecting many people. According to PBS.org, ¨164,345¨ people in Mexico have been killed by drug cartels due to the Mexican drug war. As a result, drug cartels that cross U.S borders will only bring crime and violence towards our American citizens.…
Over the past 45 years drug statistics have shown that the drug war and its efforts to keep illegal substances out of the nation and hands of the American people is not working. The drug war is feeding the drug kings, inflating the price of illegal drugs, and increasing violence among rivals much like the alcohol prohibition supplied the bootleggers and organized criminals in the 1920’s. According to the DPA, the United States has spent more than $51 billion annually on the drug war. In 2014, the U.S. had the highest incarceration rate in the world with approximately 1.5 million arrests for drug law violations.…
Organized crime in the United States pre Nineteen Twenties consisted of gambling, prostitution, and theft. However, crime syndicates not only in the United States but all across the world began to change as prohibition of alcohol spread. In the year Nineteen Seventeen the Volstead Act or National Prohibition Act was passed by congress and later became officially established as the Eighteenth Amendment in Nineteen Nineteen. The Amendment established that after one year of any activity related to alcohol will be illegal and can be prosecuted upon. Furthermore, anyone familiar with micro-economics knows that once the supply of a certain product begins to decrease, become limited, or in the case of prohibition completely stop altogether then said…
Albanese’s Transnational Crime and the 21st century and Naim’s Illicit, discuss gun smuggling, human organ smuggling, and stolen property smuggling. From previous readings, we know that crimes such as these advance due to the fall of the Soviet Union, globalization, and even the advancement of technology. For each of these crimes, the authors elaborated on the type of harms that occurred, the benefits for those involved with these crimes, the challenges that are faced when trying to prevent these crimes, and finally what can be done to prevent each. Gun smuggling involves the trafficking of armory that can be sold to individual, businesses, and or also countries. There are many risk factors that are involved with this crime that can impact…
“In the United States, the social and economic pressure associated with industrialization, urbanization, and immigration gave rise to organized criminal gangs that thrived under these conditions,” (faqs.org). According to many sources, there have been four distinct periods of growth since the establishment of…
Strengthening cooperation’s with the neighbors in North America Global cooperation is very important in terms of dealing with trade and doing away with criminal activities in many countries. This involves forming, regional, national and international bodies which can be used in fighting against criminal activities in most countries. Therefore, it is important for the US to strengthen its cooperation with the neighboring countries in the world. The strengthening of the cooperation of this country with its neighbors is very important because it will make sure that the country benefits a lot in terms of trading with its neighboring North American countries and also it will benefit in terms of fighting against the criminal activities in these countries too.…
Transnational organized crime(TOC) became a serious problem threatening worldwide security and human rights. TOC, occurred by a coordination of more than one country to be in illegal business, usually weakens financial system through money laundering. In particular, it is internationally dangerous because its criminal network is across borders, which can make connection between organizations more elaborate and flexible, even bigger. To prevent TOC, UN has suggested some resolutions such as ‘United Nations Convention against Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances’ and ‘UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.’ These were made against the money laundering which takes the financial basis of organized crime.…