The Dangers Of Organized Crime

Organized crime presents a significant and growing threat to both national and international security measures, with the potential for negative implications towards public safety, public health, democratic countries, and economic stability across the globe. Not only are criminal networks expanding, but they also are diversifying their activities; therefore, organized crime organizations are converging towards threats that were once distinct and today have explosive and destabilizing effects. Prior to the year 2001, organized crime looked to cement its means of transporting illegal drugs, personnel, or weapons through the supply chain. The overall threat to the supply chain was relatively low at the time due to limited external threats towards the interest of the United States. However, the people of the United States became fully aware of these external threats against the United States after airway transportation assets were hijacked and bent

Crime organizations sought to exploit a relaxed security measures within the supply chain by leveraging it against other nations. Criminal organizations seek to degrade or destroy other nations through a variety of means. The means to which crime organizations can inflect damage might be in the form of threats to the economy, expansion of drug, human, and weapons trafficking. Cybercrime seems to be a evolving threat to all nations. A more recent example of the cybercrime threat on the global scale would be in December 2014, the comedy movie “The Interview” plot that revolved around the assassination of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The North Korean government unleashed a massive cyber attack against Sony Pictures, who was the producer of the movie, which led to an estimated $15 million in damages to their supply chain (Chin,