Organized retail crime

The Impact of Organized Retail Crime The impact of organized retail crime appears to be restricted to financial losses to retailers. However, the economic impact extends beyond the retail industry and affects costs experienced by customers and taxes lost by the local municipalities. The theft of stolen food related items or health and beauty products can pose safety risks to consumers purchasing such goods from organized retail crime fences. Some industry experts and policy makers have expressed concerns about the possibility that profits from organized retail crime activities may be used to fund terrorist activities. Financial Losses The precise loss from organized retail crime to the retail industry is a mystery. As of April 2007, the FBI…

Over the course of year a retail company will lose thousands of dollars a year due to shoplifting and internal (employee) theft. Many companies will hire a staff who are trained to monitor and take action if necessary when it comes catching a shoplifter. Over years retail companies have seen many changes when it comes to theft. Shoplifters have got smarter in the ways they steal from a company. Even though we still see some shoplifters coming in and conceal one item and walking out the door.…

industries of the Russian economy. “The problem is the economic liberalization in Russia, even in the narrowest sense of legalizing private business activity, is far from complete. Under the practical conditions that prevail, it still remains virtually impossible for a Russian entrepreneur to operate entirely within the law.” (Leitzel, Gaddy and Alexeev). But some of the illegal activity of organized crime has proven…

The MS-13 majority members are traditionally Salvadorian nationals. However, there are growing with expansion from countries like Mexico, Guatemala, Hondurans, and other South America immigrants. The gang is estimated to be operating in every state in the US thus there is a need that the locals in every state be vigilant and report any suspicious activities in their neighborhoods as it relates to organized crime. Understanding gang life, it is important to understand it is a culture that…

From the source, “America’s First Godfather,” Mike Dash talks about how the culture effected the mafia in Sicily. He first started talking about how Morello’s story was not known around the world yet. So, he explained how Morello set up crime in New York in the 1900’s. Mr. Morello was well operated before the mafia was even a big deal to screenwriters. Morello ended up getting imprisoned, then murdered. Mike Dash then goes on to talk about the culture of Sicily, where Morello had lived, had…

who got together in these groups all had similar cultures, shared the same language, and customs so in a society where not many shared the same ideas and thoughts as they did it was easy for them to get pushed in together with all the oppression that revolved around them. The members who formed these gangs ranged in the ages of 14 year olds up to 20 and where all male (Hoover, 1999). These gangs began to form with no leadership and they would defend their barrios with vengeance from anyone that…

Black Mass, directed by Scott Cooper, tells the true story of James “Whitey” Bulger, an organized crime boss of the Boston Irish Mob crew known as the Winter Hill Gang. Following the story from the New York Times best-selling book by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill, the movie recounts the events from 1975 when Whitey was a small-time gangster, up to his eventual capture in 2011, ending his 12 year streak on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The movie stars Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger…

The 1920’s was an era of growth, modernization, and technological revolution as well as the advancement of organized crime. Long before the start of the prohibition there were small time racketeers but nobody payed close attention to them or really cared what they had to offer. The major shift in popularity came in the early 1920’s when organized crime became increasingly commercial. Daily headlines in the newspaper transitioned from movie reviews to the previous night’s bloody massacre.The…

As easy as it is to focus on the negative side of fusion centers, since 2007, fusion centers have been gaining more success stories. One example of this can be found back in 2008. The Central California Intelligence Center was responsible for preventing two bombs from potentially exploding the American embassy in Italy and Delta Airlines. The analysts were able to provide its co-local JTTF Joint Terrorist Task Force and prevent two men from blowing up those two locations. Another success…

It is also the source of funding for numerous organized crime syndicates which makes it a very heavily practiced business model. New terrorist organizations have been known utilize methods such as: kidnapping, extortion and protection rackets, fraud and drug sales. These types of activities often led to interaction with a large expanse of the criminal underworld. New terrorist organizations, such as Al Qaeda, have limited but cooperative relationships with organized crime syndicates. It is this…