How can Technology Help Law Enforcement Combat Organized Crime within the United States?
How can Technology Help Law Enforcement Combat Organized Crime within the United States?
Introduction
The law enforcement agencies play an important role in managing the law as well as the policies related to it. These agencies have certain policies and rules which are needed to be followed. They help and protect our society. Law enforcement agencies face many problems and issues while implementing the law, in enforcing the law and order, and in combating against the organized crimes. In recent years, organized crimes have grown considerably in terms of presence, sophistication and importance.
Discussion
Combating organized crime is much more difficult than the fight against common crimes. Frequently, organized crime has the resources (human, financial, political), comparable to the available official police authorities. The organized crimes in the US have turned into international threats, and have become a very serious security issue worldwide. The structures of these organized crimes have trodden (Manning, 2008).
The trendy picture of gangster utilizing complicated instigation practices and stringent policies of measures to control squads that attack their personal societies is unfashionable. Nowadays, lively, agile, limply hierarchies of small gangs with worldwide approach harm the customers, commerce, trades, governments, and administration benefits on an every day basis. Business and technological modernizations are at the back this makeover (Manning, 2008).
Impact of Technology in Combating Organized Crimes
With the arrival of novel technologies, it has become much easier for the law enforcements agencies to combat against the organized crimes. Technology has been playing a very major, important and influential role in the elimination of crimes from our society. Technological innovations and devices such as Closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras have been proven as very successful in the prevention of organized crimes. Proponents of video surveillance, this system help prevent crime. A law applies new does to any legal situations, where they remain governed by the law old? The same problem arises in criminal law.
One solution is clear: the principle of immediate application of the law new, which means that a law applies to all new acts after its entry into force. This issue will be considered only on the rules of criminal background (which criminalize offenses and fixing the penalty, as opposed to criminal rules of form, relating to the proceedings).
There is a solution in principle: the non-retroactivity of the law further. There are exceptions to this principle, in some cases, the law survives old.
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