Effectiveness: Law Enforcement -v- Organised Crime

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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:

Link:http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/383215/p...-ex-ceop-chief

Elsewhere an Opposition speaker claimed; citing the same figures with "spin" IMO:

Link: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).