History of Organizaed Crime in the U.S.
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Americans at times seem to be consumed by crime, showing at one and the same time a fear of crime and a fascination with it. Crime is a topic in the daily newspaper, often crowding other news off the front pages. Organized crime is only one aspect of the crime problem in America. Each of the immigrant groups that came to America brought with them a negative element in the from of criminal gangs that would prey on other immigrants and then on American society as a whole. The Italian segment of organized crime, variously known as the Mafia or La Cosa Nostra, prevailed for decades but has fallen on hard times because of a changed environment and improved law enforcement. Other organized groups have been eager to take the Mafia's place and has found drug smuggling in particular a lucrative activity. An examination of the history of organized crime in this century points to some of the effects the existence of these criminal organizations have had on American culture. Organized crime is something over which Americans have long argued, with some believing there is no such thing while others are convinced that there is. J. Edgar Hoover long denied the existence of organized crime until the 1960s when he was forced to admit that there was such an enterprise. Organized crime differs from other types of crime in the goods and services provided and in the relationship between the criminal enterprise and its customers: Organized crime supplies goods or ser
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cy to run a thriving black market. In the process, they bribed officials, counterfeited documents and exploited loopholes in the government--skills they now apply all over the world (Banerjee, 1994, A16).
As noted, Brighton Beach in New York is one of the locations where the Russian mob operates in the United States, and for New York police, much of what the Russian mob is doing seems very familiar because of the mob scene in New York in earlier decades, Summary executions have become all but commonplace, and the wave of lawlessness has been sufficient so that the FBI has set up a New York detachment specializing in the new "mafias" coming in from Eastern Europe and particularly from Russia. In May 1994, FBI Director Louis Freeh testified before Congress that the fight against Russian organized crime had been officially declared a priority by American authorities, elevating it to the same level as the Italian Mafia and Asian gangs. Freeh stated that the FBI today did not want to make the same mistakes made by the bureau under Hoover in the 1930s and 1940s when Hoover resolutely denied that there was any such thing as the Mafia in the United States. It is estimated that there are now some 200,000 immigrants from the former
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Approximate Pages = 22 (250 words per page)
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