CONTROLLING ORGANIZED CRIME

Controlling Organized Crime

Controlling Organized Crime

Problems established by organized crime

Traditional policing requires police officers to react to incidents. Police officers are driven by calls for service. Traditional policing gives limited information to the community. In traditional policing, supervisors have strict control over patrol officers, and police officers have very limited discretion. Traditional policing is bogged down with thick bureaucratic regulations.

When it comes to organized crime, traditional policing does not work. Traditional police officers are not out in the community attempting to get information or even give information to the general public on their advances or setbacks in dealing with organized crime. Traditional policing does not allow for specialized police officers that are proactive. These specialized officers would be more adequately trained in finding and detecting organized crime. Traditional policing will only put more officers on the street to take 911 calls and respond as needed (Lyman, 2000).

Patrol officers, under traditional policing, are told to saturate crime-infested areas. This does not reduce crime; this just displaces it. With organized crime, they would just learn how to better operate around the police. Traditional policing would require the majority of police officers to work around the morning and evening rush hours. As we all know, crime happens at all times of the day. Specialized units could be employed to adapt to the hours of these organized crime gangs.

Legal limitations associated with combating organized crime

There are a few different techniques that may be used or improved in order to regulate organized crime. Currently, law enforcement agencies focus on reacting to a situation after it has already happened. If police officers can control a situation by causing something to happen, rather than waiting to respond to the situation after it happens, society may see a decline in criminal behavior related to organized ...