Originally Posted By: Scorsese
Originally Posted By: cookcounty
Originally Posted By: IvyLeague
You can add the Balkan criminal enterprises, especially the Albanians. Increasingly, Asian criminal enterprises are not directly related to the traditional Triads. The Yakuza has relatively little presence in the U.S. Of course "Russian" criminal enterprises is often an umbrella term to refer to all Eurasian groups, i.e. both Russian and Eastern European. There's also Nigerian and Middle Eastern criminal enterprises.

You'll notice I'm using the term "criminal enterprises," as opposed to "organized crime." Even though these terms can often be used interchangeably, the FBI also differentiates between them a lot; especially when comparing La Cosa Nostra to the newer ethnic groups.

And let's not forget all the Mexican and South American drug groups. Colombians, Mexicans, Dominicans, Cubans, etc. They're often categorized differently, because they're usually involved only in drugs for the most part, but there's no denying they are also organized crime.

I should also add that even some black and Hispanic street gangs have become sophisticated enough, at times, to warrant the label "organized crime" or "criminal enterprise." It's why the Justice Department combined it's OC and Gang unit a while back.



you're about 30 years late on that one


Under the leadership of guys like larry hoover, jeff fort and willie lloyd the chicago gangs were organised crime with a chain of command and roles.Things are alot more fragmented these days however if your still managing to pull in 50,000 to 100,000 grand a week off of your drug trade and be fighting with rivals at the same time then i guess you could be considered organised crime, you even have 15 year olds running 15-30 grand spots in chicago. Also many recent cases such as the black guerilla family in baltimore and also if you remembered jimmy rosemonds drug case where he was being supplied by members of the bloods and crips in LA which shows that there is some form of structure perhaps a loose one that arranges for large-scale drug trafficking and dealing across the country. Along side that many of the street gangs are engaging in sex trafficking and fraud.



there might not even be a spot making 15k a day in chicago anymore

the drug trade is dead up here