Effectiveness: Law Enforcement -v- Organised Crime
An intriguing passage in an article by the ex-Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police today:
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In a speech two years ago, I estimated that there were about 6,000 organised criminal groups in the UK, with a total of around 38,000 individuals. Most of them operate without being disrupted by the police: indeed, in 2010, I estimated that nearly 90 per cent do. That was better than the figure for 2003, which was 94 per cent.
Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...sed-crime.html
Organised crime has not been my area of interest, but I cannot recall seeing such an estimate in the British public domain before.
Anyone aware of any similar local, regional or national estimates of effectiveness?
What has worked, what has not worked, in the past
An intriguing commentary by a UK academic, Michael Woodiwiss, on organised crime and law enforcement. Within is this passage:
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The importance of dealing with organized crime... cannot be over-emphasized. Intelligent action requires knowledge - not, as in too many cases, a mere redoubling of effort in the absence of adequate information and a definite plan. The carrying out of our recommendation for immediate, comprehensive, and scientific nation-wide inquiry into organized crime should make possible the development of an intelligent plan for its control.
It is an American report:
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In 1931 the Wickersham Commission
Worth a read:http://www.historyandpolicy.org/pape...paper-138.html
The most dangerous words in government: Just Do Something!
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Originally Posted by
davidbfpo
Tackling child pornography is often seen as 'organised crime' and this week David Cameron, the UK PM, announced some new steps and this led to a figure being given by a former CEOP head on BBC Radio 4:
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/383215/p...-ex-ceop-chief
Elsewhere an Opposition speaker claimed; citing the same figures with "spin" IMO:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23393851
CEOP is the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, originally a LE body, it now has extensive commercial and charity funding.
I don't think pushing Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo to “do more” is going to help much. The problem is likely on P2P and TOR networks, and facilitated by an global cybercrime infrastructure that is partly state-sanctioned (the lines between organized cybercrime and national cyber war/intel programs get blurry).