Are the government and law enforcement doing enough to prevent the issues caused by organized crime? The government has many ways of dealing with organized crime. This ways are sometime successful but majority of the time it fails. Many people ask questions such as what is organized crime? How it impacts society overall? The final question and most important one is how law enforcement are dealing with organized crime. Also how Canada differs from other country in organized criminal activity.
Organized crime ranges from prostitution, underground dog fight, drugs dealing, smuggling of humans and goods. These are the top organized crime, and they are controlled by the mafia and street gangs but majority of the crimes are controlled by biker gangs in Canada. Canada has a pretty big issue on gangs related crimes,
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especially biker gangs such as the Hells Angels.
The Canadian law enforcement has been try to decrease organize crime from 1970. Canada's highest point reached in criminal acts was in 1992, which we reach up to 11000 per 100000 population, crimes in one year. However the lowest ever recorded was in 2013, where there were only 4500 crime per 100000 population. Organized crimes is very complexes and very stressful for law enforcement. Many organized crimes go unknown because the law enforcement can't find enough evidence to address a crime and to charge the individual, even if they have evidence the gangs will find a way out. Gangs such as the Hells Angels, which are the biggest biker gang in Canada and the US are controlling many of the underground crimes. The Hells Angels first started as a motorcycle club but slowly became an international criminal organization.
Canada is known to the world to be one of the best countries. If searching “ the best country in the world”, Canada ranks second. Finding these stats and facts people assume that
Canada has rarely had problems with criminal activity but it is not true. Canada has a huge problem with organized crime. Gangs such as the NSK, NS, Indian Sindiket, Montreal warrior, and other street gangs has tearing communities apart. Many of this criminal organization recruit young naive tennagers. Many of these teenagers come from a broken home and just want to be accepted in a family. Criminal organization such as the ones stated before, give these teens the sense of belonging. Many of these teenagers have no idea what their getting themselves into. The only reason this organized criminal groups want them is because they are a miner. In the eye of the Canadian judicial system a miner is only supposed to serve a maximum sentence of ten years. Gangs( short for organized criminal groups) take advantage of the system and the teens by making this neive tennager go and kill rival gang members. Some of these teenagers have parents and family that actually care about them. These organized criminal groups are affecting relationships of parents and their children's. Many Documentaries and educational sources tell people that there is only two ways out of a gang, you have to die or go to jail/ prison. Even if a gang bang goes to jail/prison they are still involved in gang. Jails and prison are like university's for criminals, they go in as a street gangster and come outs as a pro-gangsters. Prison are controlled by gangs not the authority. The only difference between a street gang and a prison gang is that prison gangs are made up of color of their skin rather than the colour of their clothes. For example all white inmates are housed in one place, all black inmates in another house. The Canadian authority try their best to control these vast population of criminal organizations by setting a whole police unit to stop it. Other ways that the authorities stop the spread of gangs are by teaching youth the dangers of organized crimes. Groups/places in Regina are the North Central Family center and the Regina anti-gang group. Authorities has even taken larger steps by educating communities that are in high risks of gang culture. Canadian authorities try their best to eliminate gang culture but in many cases the gangs are always one step ahead then them. Many gangs will bribe or threaten authorities if they get caught. There has been many cases where the authorities now what the criminal group did but just could not find any evidence against them. Many criminal organization case are cold cases because it is very hard to find evidence against them. Canadian authorities have ways of controlling the flow of crimes by have strategies such as the RICO. RICO was first founded in the US, it stands for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations and it covers crimes such as murder, kidnapping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery, extortion, drug dealing, and a list of federal offences, such as loansharking, counterfeiting, mail and wire fraud. Authorities have other ways to get intake from the gangs such as going undercover and trying to collect evidence to build up a case and send them to jail/prison. Although it is really effective to go undercover, it is also dangers. Many of the police force loss their lives because they said the wrong thing and blow their covers. It is a really dangers and risky job that not anyone can do. Answering the question of “is the federal government and police force doing enough to stop it” is yes. But the way organized crime works is very hard to understand, there are so many things that are still hidden in organized crime. It may take countless years to final understand the system of the organized crime. There are so many branches in organized crime, that it makes it so hard to pinpoint the real cause of the system. Finding out and arresting the “top dogs” in the gangs are close to impossible because they make other individuals to do there so called “ business”. As long as there is drugs and bad people, there is going to be organized crime in Canada. The fight to stop organized crime is a never ending fight.
Schneider, Stephen. Iced: The story of organized crime in Canada. Mississauga: John Wiley and Sons, 2009.
The Canadian justice system, although much evolved, is having difficulty eliminating bias from the legal system. Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan, a 39 year old man, died on June 11 in a Peterborough hospital, while under immigration detention. He came to Canada in 1993 as a refugee and was suffering from mental, and physical health issues such as diabetes and bipolar disorder. There was an overwhelming amount of secrecy surrounding the death of this troubled Toronto man, and to this day no light has been shed on this tragedy. (Keung, 2015) An analysis of the official version of the law will reveal how race class and gender coincide with the bias within the legal system.
Crime control and due process are two different ideal types of criminal justice. One could say they are extremes on a continuum. The role of crime control is to get the criminal off the street and to protect the innocent. The due process model of criminal justice is like an obstacle course, you have to keep going through legal obstacles to ensure in the end you convict the right person. In Canada the police lean toward crime control and the courts lean toward due process. This causes tension between the police and the courts. I will argue for both crime control and due process, putting more weight on due process If we did not have due process in Canada, people in positions of power, could manipulate the system for their own personal or political gain and railroad the innocent off to prison.
Hornick. J, Macrae, L., Mellor. B., Pauls. M.,(2005). Youth Gangs in Canada: Preliminary Review of Programs and Services. Retrieved from http://library.mtroyal.ca:2053/lib/mtroyal/docDetail.action?docID=10111707
The Canadian Criminal Justice System is, for the most part, reflective of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and various Supreme Court of Canada case-law. Everyone who finds themselves on the opposing end of the Criminal Justice System is entitled to certain protections every step of the way, beginning even before the arrest; laws protect us from unreasonable investigative techniques, guarantee certain rights at point of arrest, and provide us with the right to counsel. The bail court departs from the ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ standard in that the crown only needs to prove on a balance of probabilities (Kellough, 1996, p. 175) in order to take away a person’s freedom. It is for this reason I decided to limit the scope of my observations to the bail court. What I found is a systemic evidence of a two-tier justice system. In this essay, I will outline the roles of the 'regular players' of the bail court and demonstrate how the current bail process essentially transforms the Canadian Criminal Justice System into a two-tier system where the affluent and powerful are able to receive preferential treatment over the poor.
Ouimet, Marc. "Crime In Canada And In The United States: A Comparative Analysis." Canadian Review Of Sociology & Anthropology 36.3 (1999): 389-408. Academic Search Premier. Web. 5 Apr. 2014.
The symbol of the Canadian judicial system is the balanced scales of justice. When a wrongful act is committed, the scales of justice are greatly misplaced and require a solution to counterbalance the crime and restore balance. Additionally, the scales represent the idea that law should be viewed objectively and the determination of innocence should be made without bias. The Canadian criminal justice system encapsulates the idea of the scale of justice, to control crime and impose penalties on those who violate the law. One of the most important aspects of this system is that an individual charged with a criminal offence is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The current system has two prevailing methods involved in the process of dealing with crime: Retributive and restorative justice. This paper will analyze aspects of retributive justice and restorative justice, with reference to their respective philosophies, for the purpose of finding which is more effective at achieving justice and maintaining balance.
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