in Phoenix Arizona
in Phoenix Arizona
Introduction
In last 20 years, the complexity of the organized crime has achieved its rapid expansion. That is why, set of the challenges for the U.S. federal law enforcement has been set. It means that the operations have been transformed by the criminals of Phoenix, Arizona, in the ways, which have broadened their area of influence and created the set of complications for the law enforcement agencies in terms of to combating them.
Background
The local criminals have already applied the set of innovative technological options - such as the networked structural models, which have enabled them to internationalize their operations and ensure their power there. It is claimed by the scholars that currently, there is a large-scale challenge to U.S. law enforcement (and for the Phoenix, Arizona, in particular).
The networked structural or cellular models are currently preferred by the modern organized criminals. It is considered by them that such approach implies some options for their flexibility and creates the fertile buckhound for avoiding the possible hierarchies, which have been previously managed by the set of the traditional organized groups of criminals.
The set of complications is made by the fluid network structures in infiltration of the law enforcement and their disruption and dismantling conspiracies. The lion share of the organized groups, operating in the 21st century, is formed around the short-term and specific schemes. Such approach enables their leaders to use the outsource shares of their operations instead of managing the entire set of the operations, while using the local actives.
While referring to the globalization as the factor of the crime commitment, it is essential to note that both illicit and licit commerce have been revolutionized by it in the scales of the Phoenix, Arizona. It means that both technological and commercial innovations have forced the reduction of the national and local trade barriers, as well as they have expanded the transportation infrastructure and widened the sales of the of international business in the region.
The major contributions for this trend were the extensive cellular telephone networks and Internet, as they have forced the active use of eh wide scale and inexpensive communication (Berdal, 2002). In addition, the integrated financial systems have created the possibility of easy movement of monetary funds in the global scales. Such possibility is widely used by the criminals for their illicit proceeds’ laundering.
Analysis
Bjelopera and Finklea (2012) argue that that the approximate rate of the money laundering in the global scales reaches the rate between 2% - 5% of the total GDP of the world economic system. In the same manner, the borders of Phoenix, Arizona, create the set of the options for the local criminals in making the complications for the local law enforcement agencies.
In the same way, the their technological “toolkits” were expanded and adjusted by the organized criminals of Phoenix in the process of integration of the fraud activities, driven by technological options, into their fraud into their capabilities.
The operations, issued by the organized crime groups of Phoenix, Arizona, pose the potential harm to the citizens of U.S, even while such groups may be even not present on the territory of this state or even more, being located outside of the country.
It means that the cyber intrusions are integrated by the illicit activities of such groups into corporate databases. As an evident example, it is possible to refer to the common cases of theft of the individual data regarding the consumer credit card, unlawful protection of the online activities, related to the stolen merchandise, as well as leveraging technological options, directed on assistance of the drug’s smuggling (Bjelopera and Finklea, 2012)..
The whole set of the illegal activities, which is faced by the law enforcement agencies of Phoenix, Arizona, integrates the following: theft of the data, related to the individual consumer credit card, cyber invasions into corporate databases, online fencing of the stolen merchandise, as well as leveraging technology, which is mainly directed on assisting of the illegal drug’s smuggling (Siegel and Nelen, 2007).
Conclusions
It is critically import for the local law enforcement agonies to elaborate the new and strategic approaches towards managing these threats while applying into the practice the innovative technological options as well as educating the employees of such agencies in terms of using the internet as well as other implications of rapid globalization in an effective manner.
References
Berdal, M. R. (2002) Transnational Organized Crime and International Security: Business as Usual? Lynne Rienner Publishers
Bjelopera, J.P., Finklea, K. M. (2012) Organized Crime: An Evolving Challenge for U.S. Law Enforcement. CRS
Siegel, D., Nelen, H. (2007) Organized Crime: Culture, Markets and Policies. Springer
