The Fight Organized Crime Regime - 1692 Words

Since the beginning of the 21st century, organized crime has grown in complexity. With this new era, law enforcement has been made to change and improve the ways in which they try and fight organized crime. With the use of technology, the new organized crime regime have used technology to its advantage and are seen as a very real threat to US law enforcement. Most members of law enforcement, anti-mafia NGOs and academic and journalistic analysts insist upon the fact that from the mid-1990’s on up, the anti-mafia fight dramatically slowed down and weakened.(Paoli) The consequence of recent law enforcement accomplishments is that Italian mafia organizations, and particularly Cosa Nostra, are experiencing their most serious crisis since the†¦show more content†¦Due to increase police enforcement, some mafia families are now bankrupt. There has also been a sizeable increase in mafia members become state’s witnesses. This is due to the implementation of legislation allowing them sanctioning and penitentiary benefits and establishing a state protection program in 1991. (Paoli) Since many of the most influential criminal families has left, there are open spaces for an assortment of middle-sized and small crime groups that often fight each other for control of the local territory. The achievements of law enforcement over t he past ten years have been accomplished within a stable legislative and institutional policy framework. The DIA’ mission is ‘to ensure the implementation, in a coordinated manner, of intelligence activities targeting organized crime and to conduct investigations exclusively concerning mafia or mafia-related offences’. (Paoli) The second major legislative innovation of the early 1990s was a true emergency measure, which was a bill that was finally converted into law in August 1992. The passing of this bill, gave the DIA and judiciary police added responsibilities that enabled them to search, question and wiretap suspected criminal activity; introduced new offences for anti-mafia trials, and documented as judicial evidence testimonies achieved by the prosecutor’s office during the initial inquiries, even if