Racketeer Influence And Corrupt Organization (RICO)

Since 2010, integration has been the vanguard initiative of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). This initiative has been successful in several areas to include: the creation of National Intelligence Managers (NIM) for all primary geographic regions and functional areas; enhanced transparency; and the focus on the negative impacts of over classifying documents. However, not all efforts to integrate the intelligence community (IC) have been successful. For instance, the ODNI did not succeed at creating a comprehensive sharing environment, and has not fully integrated federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies. Although, these failed areas of integration can be mitigated in the future through the appropriate initiatives taken by the ODNI.

Throughout its more than hundred year history, the Federal Bureau of Investigations has been a very important agency to the United States. As a threat-based and intelligence-driven national security organization, the mission of the FBI is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership to federal, state, and international agencies (“A Brief History of the FBI”). The Bureau’s success has always depended on its agility, its willingness to adapt, and the ongoing dedication of its personnel. But in the years since

Department of Justice has four agencies that have major functions within them that hold great responsibility. These four agencies consist of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the United States Marshals Service (USMS). There are three major roles that the FBI has. The first role is to use counterterrorism, which neutralize any terroristic acts and dismantling any terroristic networking systems. Secondly, there is counterintelligence that prevents any investigations on intelligence activities that occur on U.S soil. Lastly, there is foreign espionage which is spying on the government especially in regards to military, and economics (Peak, 2014 p.265). The FBI analyzes

Although many citizens criticized the FBI’s highly contentious investigation of the Democratic presidential nominee Secretary Clinton during the 2016 election, the Bureau is no stranger to controversial involvement with political movements. Originally created to protect the United States from foreign intelligence threats, the FBI interpreted their creation as a mandate to mobilize against communist sympathizers and extremists who threatened Democracy. Specifically, the years between 1956 and 1971 marked some of the FBI’s most fanatical persecution of dissidents. Here, against the backdrop of the Cold War, Vietnam War, lingering fears of communism, the Civil Rights movement, and a surge in KKK activity, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover implemented

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the United States of America domestic security and intelligence which also serves as the federal government’s law enforcement agency. Working under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI simultaneously considered as part of the US intelligence community, comprises of many other federal and state agencies and reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence. The agency performs a leading role in counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and criminal investigative roles making it have jurisdictions of over 200 categories of federal crime. Even though most of FBI’s roles are domestic and limited to crimes within the US borders, it is equivalent to intelligence

Emphasis on teamwork is a very important element in organizational behavior in the criminal justice or security agency. Many criminal organization are starting to work together to goal of making a huge profit in illegal activity, which is making it difficult for law enforcement to infiltrate and investigate a criminal organization because most of the criminal organization have knowledge of law enforcement personnel around their local area. Law enforcement agencies have teamed up and used other undercover officer from different local, state, and federal agencies to infiltrate and investigate illegal activity by criminal organizations. The United States may also team with agencies on an international level to help combat international criminal organization, in an effort to stop terrorism, drugs, human trafficking, and etc.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a unique government agency that employs intensive research and immediate actions to solve issues that the general police cannot settle themselves (Quick Facts). The FBI’s today mission statement is “to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners” (Quick Facts). Today, the organization focuses on certain threats that requires strategic intelligence to protect our nation, threats like terrorism, foreign intelligence operations and espionage, technology-based crimes, criminal

The FBI is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice. Title 28, United States Code, Section 533, which authorizes the Attorney General to "appoint officials to detect...crimes against the United States," and other federal statutes give the FBI the authority and responsibility to investigate specific crimes. At present, the FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crimes.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an intelligence and security agency that works domestically in the United States. It simultaneously serves as the nation’s main federal law enforcement agency. This agency reports to not only the Attorney General but also the Director of National Intelligence and operates under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice. This agency has jurisdiction over more than 200 crimes against the nation. It, unlike the CIA, is mainly an agency that serves domestically but it also operates internationally.

Counterintelligence (CI) involves actions aimed at protecting the United States against foreign intelligence operations and espionage from penetration and disruption by hostile nations or their intelligence services (Lowenthal, 2014). Three main components of Counterintelligence include collection, defensive and offensive. Collection is ability to gather intelligence information about rivalry capabilities against own nation; defensive part of CI involve measures to prevent and thwarting other nations attempts to penetration into own nations intelligence system; while offensive deal with running double agents to penetrate, manipulate, exploit, and control targeted adversaries. CI is said to be the most essential aspect of the intelligence disciplines, in the sense that collecting vast quantities of secret information and produce excellent analysis of the intelligence, but ineffective counterintelligence measures may diminish confidence the final results (Van Cleave, 2013). According to Federal Bureau of Investigation (2011) “Significant advances have been made in clarifying and rectifying intelligence gaps and requirements through the formation of liaison and working relationships with other U.S. intelligence community agencies, foreign partners, the private sector, and academia”. For instance, since 2001, FBI CI program has resulted to total arrests of 249, of which 46 of them were linked to espionage. Counterintelligence (CI)

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is the largest and pri- mary investigative arm of the U.S. DHS.46 ICE is responsible for identifying and inves- tigating weaknesses within the nation’s borders, developing intelligence concerning threats, removing foreign nationals, and enforcing over 400 federal statutes. The agency was formed in 2003 as part of the Homeland Security Act and is the result of a merger of several federal agencies, including the Customs Service, Immigration and Natural- ization, and the Federal Protective Service. ICE has approximately 15,000 employees in 400 offices in the United States and 50 offices around the world.47 The ICE agency plays a pivotal role in enforcing Internet-related crimes because

The second federal agency, the U.S. Customs & Border Protection Agency, functions beneath the Department of Homeland Security (Levinthal, 2012). The responsibility of the Customs & Border agency is to limiting movement of illicit drugs across America’s borders (Levinthal, 2012). In addition, branches are also employed to assist the agency of the smuggling and money laundering due to the interdiction of illicit drugs (Levinthal, 2012). The branches aid in the interdiction, due to covering many avenues, smugglers interchange of importation (Levinthal,

Intelligence collection and apprehension of criminals have occurred for many years; however, with the exception of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, these actions were performed by different organizations. Nonetheless, roles and responsibilities have changed since the attacks on September 11, 2001. Intelligence-led policing and the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing program were incorporated, and fusion centers were established to help gather intelligence from different levels of the government. Although law enforcement at the local, state, and tribal levels aid in intelligence collection, it is important to ensure that intelligence gathered to protect national security and law enforcement

Organized Crime is considered a major threat to the development and security of their country. They gain profit through the evaluation of countries risks, benefits, and markets, and have taken to multiple forms of corruption to invade political, economic, and social levels not only in their own country, but in the world. Today, organized crime still poses as a major threat in American society with their illegal operations, especially with the growth of

Bono, an Irish venture capitalist and philanthropist, once stated, “The biggest disease is corruption. The vaccine is transparency.” Unfortunately, Latin American and Caribbean states became infected after the end of colonialism in the 1800’s, and not a single Latin American or Caribbean state has cured itself. On 25 January 2017, Transparency International, an anti-corruption NGO, released its 2016 edition of the Corruption Perceptions Index, which revealed that the average score on the Index for the Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC) was a meager 44 out of 100. Anything below a 50 out of 100 indicates that governments are failing to tackle corruption. There are two principal reason for the rampant corruption witnessed in the LAC: the relationship between organized crime and corruption and the region’s skewered political system that creates a breeding ground for powerful oligarchies that misappropriate power and funds to satisfy their own desires. First, the correlation between organized crime and corruption is both a cycle and geographical. Organized crime cannot exist without corruption, but corruption is, in part, briberies by criminal organizations or simple businesses looking to bypass government regulations. Moreover, Central America, due to its geographical location, is a hub of drug trafficking and criminal gangs. With regard to the LAC’s crooked political system, during the region’s colonial days it was ripe with corruption, and that trend persisted after