Organized Crime: Threat, History, and Impact on Society

Introduction
Organized Crime is considered to be a category of the transnational, national as well as local groupings which relate to the highly centralized enterprises which are considered to be run by criminals in order to engage in the criminal activities which would be with the motive or the objective of gaining profit. Several criminal groups or terrorist groups are considered to be politically motivated and at times the criminal organizations are considered to force the individuals into doing business with them. In the United States the Organized Crime Control Act 1970 is considered to regulate and govern these activities and they have defined organized crime as the unlawful activities of a highly organized as well as disciplined association. The criminal activities are considered to be a structured process which is referred to as racketeering and due to the ever-increasing violence of the Mexico’s drug war a report which has been issued by the United States Department of Justice symbolizes the Mexican drug cartels as the greatest organized crime threat to the country. 

Discussion
History of Organized crime in America
In Chicago, Al Capone along with his family had massacred the North Side Gang. In New York City from the end of the 1920s there were two factions of organized crime that had appeared and developed in order to fight for the control of the criminal underworld. Organized crime begun in urban America due to the global connections that are considered to characterize the phenomenon today and organized crime has proven itself to be some kind of a dynamic enterprise. Therefore, a tremendous growth related to the crime in the United States led to the creation or the formation of a national organization. After the repeal of that of the Eighteenth Amendment which put an end to bootlegging the practice relating to illegal manufacturing or selling or transporting of the liquor to criminal overlords turned to various other activities and such became highly organized. The set up was usual which was considered to be a hierarchical one with several families or syndicates who were considered to be in operations in several major cities. Wherever such crimes existed it tried to seek protection from the interference of police and courts. In addition to such, the illegal activities which were taking place primarily gambling and along with such narcotics trafficking which were the chief source of income of the syndicates they also engaged in nominal legitimate enterprises. 

History of Organized crime in America

Organized Crime Activity
There are several ways through which the syndicates or the groups engage and indulge in criminal activities however, in many developing countries such activities are through smuggling and corruption and it involves the black market. One such organization that is involved in organized crime would be the Barrio Azteca which is currently operating and is based in Texas. 

Terrorism
In the U.S. the definition for terrorism is considered to be a systematic or thrraetened use relating to violence which would be in order to create some kind of a general climate of fear that would create an intimidation for the whole populace or the government thereby which would effect the political as well as religious or ideological change. In the month of July 19916 there had been a bomb explosion in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta which was during the middle of a concert during that of the Summer Olympics. This was a gruesome terrorist attack before September 9/11 and prior to the 1196 attack there had been an attack in the year 1995 which killed 168 people and injured almost 700. Therefore, terrorism is considered to be the act in which the terrorists try to instill fear among the people and these acts are done mostly to cause harm and injury to the citizens of a nation and threaten the government (Schlegelmilch, Petkova, Martinez, & Redlener, 2017). Most of the terrorist attacks are usually politically motivated. Therefore, in order to prevent such terrorist activity and ensure safety of the citizens the government needs to come up with new initiatives and try to reduce the organized criminal activities. Under the Patriot Act 2001 domestic terrorism is considered to be defined as the activities that pose danger and involves acts which are dangerous to the human life and are considered to be in violation of the criminal laws of any of the states which are considered to be prevailing in the United States and these are considered to appear intended and to intimidate some kind of coercion to the civilian populace. 

Stability of Mexico is of critical importance
The Mexican drug trafficking organizations are considered to pose a great threat as these organizations work across various borders globally. They are considered to be involved in various criminal activities and extensive money laundering or bribery along with human trafficking and corruption. Therefore, in order to reduce such is considered to be of paramount importance. The government in the United States have tried to increase their security significantly for both United States as well as Mexico. These organized crime units are considered to indulge and engage in activities that would harm the society as a whole and these are being done without any kind of police interference. Therefore the stability is considered to be of critical importance as it would help in reducing the crime rates of these organized criminal activities and the drug overlords who are associated with it. The families, which are engaged in organized criminal activities, are considered to indulge in all the criminal activities which would create a dangerous place for the world as they deal in criminal activities globally throughout the world which would increase their power and authority or control over the others. Therefore, the federal bureau of the United States are considered to dedicate their work into reducing and decreasing such crime rate. The FBI has dedicated their work to eliminating and reducing the transnational crime of those crime groups which are considered to pose a great threat to that of the national as well as the economic security of the country (Fijnaut, 2016).

Conclusion
Thus, from  the above discussion it can be concluded that the organized criminal activities had begun from urban America and it had started from the period of 1920s and such was based on hierarchical ones where the families were involved in these organized criminal activities along with the members. There are various criminal groups that are currently operating globally which needs to be stopped and they engage in various criminal activities like contract killing, drug, gambling, money laundering, racketeering, human trafficking, drug smuggling among others. Therefore, these needs to be prevented as they are associated with various criminal groups and they pose a threat to the society.