Because every tactic the police develop, organized crime develop a tactic to deal with it. And the best tactic organized crime have is the use of fear and violence. So it's a cause and effect, again.
But now particularly with mobile phones and social media, this internalized endless newspaper as to street news, beefs. But also any organized crime that you've heard of, probably in the last 8 to 10 years, so if you think about the 2011 riots, if you heard about that big thing that kicked off in Walthamstow between two rival girl gangs last week, organized gang-rapes, organized robberies, organized
I go to your blog and I see these people with tattoos of characters on their arms and things like that. There's a huge organized crime in it, too.
I go to your blog and I see these people with tattoos of characters on their arms and things like that. So it's organized crime .
That means that that money for that activity goes into new areas. What new areas might organized crime go into? They might be able to buy and sell government decisions, like they buy and sell heroin. This would make democracy an illusion. We need a global, integrated strategy to address global organized crime .
And now you have this third generation of kids on the street who have only been socialized in the norms of the drug war. It's not a perfect system because organized crime still controls the supply, so they still have the same level of corruption.
This guy, who was going to kill us. I was probably put on the organized crime beat, which was a relief.
yourself even said family business referring to the rean family um can you talk about the parallels that the show has to this sort of organized crime uh structure I I I I think you know it's it's organized it's a family it's really I think tribe is really the the word for it with their own Customs
illicit trades of various sort. The mantra in policy circles about transnational organized crime , drug trafficking, migrant smuggling, and so on today is that they're all greatly aided by new technologies and revolutions in communication and transportation.
The last quick story I wanted to tell you, just to wrap up in the last five minutes, is now looking at aspects of our psychology and cognitive was one of the drivers of the rise of organized crime that became the mafia.
so prohibition uh brought about uh a lot of crime um this is where organized crime really takes you know takes foothold if anybody's everever watched or read anything about organized crime about the mafia prohibition is
about uh a lot of crime um this is where organized crime really takes you know takes foothold if anybody's everever watched or read anything about organized crime about the mafia prohibition is what made them in the United States what they are or what they were because they
That was the agreement, the promise that I made to them. His expertise in the FBI was with Russian organized crime .
And then, along comes Carrie Nation. I like to call her the "Mother of Organized Crime ." Carrie Nation, of course, was the leader of the women's temperance movement, which led forth Prohibition and the rise of the true godfather of crime and some very, very stylishly
or rather, people like me, because this drug war, if it's a war, it's more of an arms race. Because every tactic the police develop, organized crime develop a tactic to deal with it. And the best tactic organized crime have is the use of fear and violence.
Let's take the street gangs. Even if they do know, and generally like organized crime and such, the idea is that they become a member of a gang, not because they enjoy, usually, armed robbery, but because of the social tension that them, because the organization pays for them and for the families,
At the time, when one of the leaders of the NAACP saw that what they were going to do at Southie and Roxbury, the words that we couldn't say because we were controlled by organized crime , and by demagogic political leaders that were mini local versions of Donald Trump, essentially,
And the supposed role of the Illicit Finance Group was to follow money laundering and illicit financial transfers involving countries like Iran or North Korea, organized crime groups or Russian criminals or folks like that. So there was a clear contract that Ira and Dave showed me, showing that Bob worked for this group
There are some great examples of that. This was highlighted at Google Ideas, organized crime and corruption project. These guys are crowd sourcing the investigation of dictators and their funds.
It's not necessarily something that's just illegal itself, right? Probably the most corrupt period in American history was the corruption in actually organized crime and violence created by that.
with the victim in the room. And I'm going to need to use technology to take on organized crime .
And of course, this is the mother of organized crime in the United States.
So, we have from petty crime to organized crime , which is another 500 billion dollars.
There was so much money being made, organized crime was making a fortune, and the violence
a three-belt martial art master. Now, that's not the answer to the thing, but it maybe can help deter -- just like during the Cold War we deterred folks from having the war. How can trans-national organized crime networks be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated global enterprises? If you take all the military budgets of the world, you add them up, it's about 1.3, 1.5 trillion with a T -- trillion dollars. Organized crime is about twice that worldwide.
And now you have this third generation of kids on the street who have only been socialized in the norms of the drug war. And you know, Frank spent a career fighting the highest echelons of organized crime .
And before you know it, I had 750 customers that were mostly organized crime people, which had its benefits.
as taxis in the country, which are basically minibuses run by organized crime gangs.
What new areas might organized crime go into? They might be able to buy and sell government decisions, like they buy and sell heroin. This would make democracy an illusion. We need a global, integrated strategy to address global organized crime . We don't have that. We barely have it in countries, because we divide up the policy in different areas. You know, this guy's working on numbers, this
And now you have this third generation of kids on the street who have only been socialized in the norms of the drug war. So if someone, perhaps to avoid a chunk of jail sentence themselves, is willing to give evidence against an organized crime group,
And now you have this third generation of kids on the street who have only been socialized in the norms of the drug war. But what shocked us is what Frank Matthews was able to tell us-- 'cause he used to work within that-- is that even that last defense against organized crime --
or your organization. But you have to understand that, in Mexico, the line between government and organized crime is, in many times,
And my neighbor, unbeknownst to me, was the head of the organized crime family, the Bonanno crime family.
But part of giving it more serious attention, I think, is recognizing how important it's actually been historically, not just as a contemporary new and different phenomena. And I don't want to suggest that basically it's all story of continuity rather than change, but the bottom line of the book is in a debate about global organized crime and so on that emphasizes change and transformation so much, we also need to see patterns of continuity.
Carrie Nation was behind the women's temperance movement which eventually led to Prohibition, which led to organized crime . It's
And, of course, there are all kinds of parties, including organized crime and state-sponsored agencies, that want to exploit these vulnerabilities in the network for their own advantage.
the war. How can trans-national organized crime networks be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated global enterprises? If you take all the military budgets of the world, you add them up, it's about 1.3, 1.5 trillion with a T -- trillion dollars. Organized crime is about twice that worldwide. I want that to sink in. Think of the infrastructure of the militaries of the world. Think of the cash. Think of the personnel.