The Role Of Organized Crime In Canada

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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, …show more content…

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

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