UNIT 8 Organized Crime Hate Crimes Youth Crimes

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 2 Unit Seven and Eight Assignments Seminar Discussion Board Quiz Reading (Chapter 12 – Illegal Immigrants, Mob, Hate, Youth and Chapter 13 – Policing Trends) Unit Seven Unit Eight Seminar Discussion Board Quiz Project Paper Reading (Chapter 10 – Civil Liability and Chapter 11 – Terrorism, Gangs and Drugs)

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 3 Unit 8 Assignments Unit 8 Quiz Unit 8 discussion question Unit 8 seminar

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 4 Grading Policy Reminder I will extend deadlines for papers Left quizzes open BUT I expect early and frequent discussion board responses Not every instructor

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 5 Unit 9 Project Paper Technology designed for law enforcement Read chapter 14 & 15 for ideas Research 3 new technologies Explain the benefits to police and community

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 6 Video lwFP-vk&feature=related lwFP-vk&feature=related

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 7 Questions Why do Americans like the mob movies so much? Do you think they are realistic? Growing Up Gotti, Mob Wives

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 8 Question What is the current state of the mob in your area?

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 9 Question What is your definition of ‘organized crime’?

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 10 Policing Organized Crime Organized crime Any group having some manner of formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities Oldest, most profitable, and most dangerous form of organized crime in the US is the Mafia

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 11 Question In terms of organized crime, what organizations are the most dangerous today? Why?

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 12 Organized Crime Several nationalities are involved in organized crime Examples are the Chinese Triads, Japanese Yakuza, Russian Vorovskoy Zakon and other groups Drug Cartels Street Gangs

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 13 Policing Organized Crime Origins can be traced back to 13 th century Sicily “Morte Alle Francia Italia Anela” meaning “Death to the French is Italy’s Cry” The acronym of this is MAFIA Mafia has a formal structure Silence is critical

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 14 Policing Organized Crime By the 1960s the Mafia’s influence in America had grown to a multibillion-dollar syndicate of criminal enterprises run by 26 families nationwide Beginning in the mid-1980s, the FBI led an assault on the Mafia Put away two generations of godfathers. HOW??

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 15 Video Time Watch this video and return back to class kP1xI&feature=relmfu kP1xI&feature=relmfu Return to the class after watching the video in You Tube

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 16 Informants for Organized Crime FBI and other agencies will work undercover to gather information FBI also obtained the cooperation of known mafia members Need good informants

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 17 Policing Organized Crime How was this success obtained? 1. Expanded use of electronic eavesdropping (wiretapping) 2. Use of informants as explained in video 3. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) In your opinion is the mafia more of an illicit mom-and-pop operation or a real threat?

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 18 Question What is a hate crime?

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 19 Policing Hate crimes A hate crime is defined as a crime motivated by a offender’s bias against a victim’s race, religion, ethnic origin, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation Frequently there are a combination of crimes such as property crime and a hate crime What are the indicators of a hate crime?

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 20 Video Time Watch this video and return back to class 1UgoA&feature=related 1UgoA&feature=related Return to the class after watching the video in You Tube What are your reactions to the video?

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 21 Policing Hate Crimes Your reactions to the hate crime video? Hate Crime Statistics Act (1990) Forced police to collect statistics on hate crimes Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Developed expertise in identifying and tracking hate-crime groups and incidents

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 22 Policing Hate Crimes FBI reports about 9650 hate-crime victimization each year About 52.1% are motivated by racial- bias About 15% are aimed at sexual orientation About 18% religion About 1% aimed at victim’s disability

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 23 Policing Hate Crimes Authority on hate crimes and groups Intelligence Project Conducts training for law enforcement Counts 803 active hate groups in US Include black separatist groups, Christian identity groups, the KKK, neo-Nazis, neo- Confederates, racist skinheads

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 24 Question In your opinion, what are the crimes most likely carried out by youths?

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 25 Policing Youth Crimes School violence and bullying Strategies for police and citizens to help prevent school violence 1. Publicizing the philosophy that a gang presence will not be tolerated 2. Alerting students and parents about school rules and punishments

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 26 Video Time Watch this video on school bullies and return back to class pt1H4AJw pt1H4AJw Return to the class after watching the video in You Tube What are your reactions to the video?

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 27 School Bully Video The victim was Casey Heynes He was a victim of that boy for months. He suffered repeated attacks at school The boys video taped the attack to embarrass the victim at school The You Tube video was very popular Was his reaction appropriate?

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 28 Policing Youth Crimes School resource officers (SROs) Bullying Two key components 1. Repeated harmful acts 2. An imbalance of power Between 5 and 9 percent of students bully others with some regularity

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 29 Policing Youth Crimes About 46.3% of all persons arrested in the US are under the age of % are under 19 Juvenile crime remains one of the nation’s most serious problems During a recent ten-year period, juveniles ages 12 to 14 and 15 to 17 experienced average annual rates of nonfatal violence that were about 2.5 times higher than rate for adults

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 30 Policing Youth Crimes Four in five victims of nonfatal violent crime, ages 12 to 14, perceived the offender to be a juvenile Laws enacted that make the juvenile system more punitive and easier to transfer juveniles into the adult system Incarceration rate of 645 makes the US second only to that of Russia at 685

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 31 Policing Youth Crimes 3. Creating alternative schools for students that cannot function in a regular classroom 4. Training parents, teachers, and school staff to identify at risk children 5. Developing community initiatives focused on breaking family cycles of violence 6. Establishing peer counseling

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 32 Policing Youth Crimes Four areas of concern 1. The environmental design of the school areas 2. Teachers’ knowledge and response to the problem 3. Parents’ attitude and responses 4. Students’ perceptions and behaviors

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 33 Policing Youth Crimes Gun violence Overall homicide rate declined in 1980s and 1990s Youth violence, particularly gun homicide began increasing dramatically Research as linked urban gun violence to gang conflicts over drug markets Operation Cease Fire

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 34 Policing Youth Crimes Disorderly conduct in public places Response to the problem 1. Creating alternative legitimate places and activities for youth 2. Encouraging youth to gather where they will not disturb others 3. Reducing the comfort level of popular gathering places

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 35 Policing Youth Crimes 4. Installing and monitoring closed-circuit television cameras 5. Establishing and enforcing rules of conduct 6. Denying youth anonymity by getting to know the names and faces of young people

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 36 Policing Youth Crimes Underage drinking The average age when youth first try alcohol is 11 years for boys and 13 years for girls Average age at which Americans begin drinking regularly is 15.9 years Adolscents who began drinking before age 15 are four times more likely to develop alcohol dependency than those who began at 21

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 37 Policing Youth Crimes Estimated 3 million teenagers are alcoholics Of the three leading causes of death for 15- to 24-year-olds – automobile crashes, homicides, and suicides – alcohol is a leading factor in all three

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 38 Policing Youth Crimes Police responses to underage drinking 1. Target reduction of the community’s overall alcohol consumption 2. Use a comprehensive approach

Policing America, 6 th edition Kenneth Peak © 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ All Rights Reserved. 39 Goodnight Thank you for the active participation My AIM martinfoley1 Start to participate on the discussion board…review your grade report Class will end July 26th