Organized Crime
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Organized crime is better organized than it has ever been before and it is growing at such a pace that it constitutes a major threat to American society and to free societies all over the world. Understanding the facts about the new nature of organized crime has come about very slowly. Only a short time ago the end of the American Mafia was being predicted as various new groups were believed to be taking its place. In 1991 Robert Mueller, a U.S. Assistant Attorney General, testifying before Congress said that America would not repeat the mistake made with the growth of the Mafia -- "we cannot stand idly by while newer organized crime groups invade our society" (quoted by Sterling 150). But it has become increasingly clear in the 1990s that the old-fashioned crime syndicate has gained new life and flourishes as it never has before with mutual support from the new strains of organized crime. As Sterling said in 1994, a government stand against crime was too late because American society had "already been invaded, by the same forces advancing on Europe, working both continents as one" (150). The revamped and the new organizations flourish, however, with a new sophistication in terms of organization and the technology they employ. This sophistication, combined with an increase in the degree of violence used, makes organized crime deadlier than ever before as it stretches out to become a genuinely global phenomenon. Since the fall of the Soviet Union the emergence of a va
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e, also in 1990, addressed the growth of new forms of organized crime in America. Jamaican posses, Los Angeles gangs spreading throughout the country, Hells-Angels-style motorcycle gangs as well as Asian and Colombian cartels were, Delattre warned, a growing threat to American society. But, arguing against the idea of legalizing drugs, Delattre prefaced his article by saying that "persistent application of RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute) is unraveling the criminal empire of La Cosa Nostra in the United States" (38). In other words, there may be a new threat, but it can be dealt with by the same justice system that had been so successful against the American Mafia.
Even in 1995 Ryan argued that the American Mafia was in a decline that would cause it to be replaced by the new gangs of foreign and local criminals (28). The Mafia in the United States has fallen on hard times as great numbers of the leadership have been jailed after decades of carelessness and a belief in their near-immune status. On the strength of its achievement, the FBI vowed that all this would not happen again and promised, in the early 1990s, that no criminal organization could "ever achieve a comparable level of power" (
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Approximate Word count = 1940
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)
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