se the theft of cargo, while at the same time acting as an obstacle to law enforcement officials because they have little to go on when crimes go unreported, “Disclosure of theft causes ripple effects in insurance rates, so many carriers will do almost anything to prevent going on the record. That leaves us with no intelligence information and, therefore, no effective way to track cargo crime” (Cargo’s 4). Further, property crime is considered less urgent than other types of crime like homicide or drug trafficking, so authorities often fail to allocate enough law enforcement officials to handle the growing problem. Further, the efforts of law enforcement are further hampered by a lack of coordination between local, state, federal and international authorities.
Another problem with air cargo theft is that authorities have discovered it is often the work of gangs or crime rings, many of them with ties to organized crime. For instance, in New York, a crime ring made of with millions of dollars in merchandis
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