individual assignment mario velazquez CJA 384 WEEK 1
Organized Crime
Mario Velazquez
CJA 384
Steve Nance
Organized Crime
The FBI defines organized crime as any group having some manner of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities. Such groups maintain their position through the use of actual or threatened violence, corrupt public officials, graft, or extortion, and generally have a significant impact on the people in their locales, region, or the country as a whole ("The FBI Federal Bureau Of Investigation", 2015).
In my personal opinion organized crime is an activity involving a group of people in secure businesses that get involve on the gaining of income and influence of engaging in criminal activities. Drug trafficking it is one of the biggest organized crime in the El Paso TX area do to the fact that the El Paso is one of the biggest international cross from Mexico. Mexico is one of the countries that make most of their money with drug trafficking and a lot of drugs cross over from Mexico through El Paso international bridges. For example 5 months ago federal agents just had a raid in the central area of the city arresting 38 people involved in drug trafficking working with the Azteca organization.
Another example, bribe is a main characteristic in organized crime since this group need to get public official, politicians and other different authority personal in order for them to be protected or at least cover up in order for them not to get catch by law enforcement agencies but sooner or later everything collapse and they still get cut. For example in El Paso County at Socorro city they cut a famous family that were majors of the city (Gandara family) that were involved the trafficking of drugs by helping the Mexican cartels by housing drugs in there ranch in the border of El Paso and Juarez Mexico.
I have been taking other criminal justice classes an organized crime has been one of the topic often use for different cases that we have
Mario Velazquez
CJA 384
Steve Nance
Organized Crime
The FBI defines organized crime as any group having some manner of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities. Such groups maintain their position through the use of actual or threatened violence, corrupt public officials, graft, or extortion, and generally have a significant impact on the people in their locales, region, or the country as a whole ("The FBI Federal Bureau Of Investigation", 2015).
In my personal opinion organized crime is an activity involving a group of people in secure businesses that get involve on the gaining of income and influence of engaging in criminal activities. Drug trafficking it is one of the biggest organized crime in the El Paso TX area do to the fact that the El Paso is one of the biggest international cross from Mexico. Mexico is one of the countries that make most of their money with drug trafficking and a lot of drugs cross over from Mexico through El Paso international bridges. For example 5 months ago federal agents just had a raid in the central area of the city arresting 38 people involved in drug trafficking working with the Azteca organization.
Another example, bribe is a main characteristic in organized crime since this group need to get public official, politicians and other different authority personal in order for them to be protected or at least cover up in order for them not to get catch by law enforcement agencies but sooner or later everything collapse and they still get cut. For example in El Paso County at Socorro city they cut a famous family that were majors of the city (Gandara family) that were involved the trafficking of drugs by helping the Mexican cartels by housing drugs in there ranch in the border of El Paso and Juarez Mexico.
I have been taking other criminal justice classes an organized crime has been one of the topic often use for different cases that we have
References: The FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/organizedcrime/glossary Lyman, M. D., & Potter, G. W. (2007). Organized Crime (4th ed.). : Pearson Education.