Abstract
This paper will discuss organized crime groups in relation to their interrelationships and their illegal dealing. It will enclose how different organized crime groups make allies and relationships with one another to help bring money and power to their organizations. The next step is to discuss the legal limitations that limit the ability of law enforcement to be able to bring criminal organizations to justice for their crimes. It will show what laws help limit the combat against organized crime and why they put legal limitations of law enforcement. This will lead to the final discussion on what would be a good solution to organized crime and how to bring them to justice legally.

Controlling Organized Crime
Organized crime groups in the United States date back to the 1900’s. In the 1900’s there were various groups that took form throughout the states. These groups started when immigrants came to the shore lines of the United States. Over the years threw segregation, prohibition and other factors that gave certain groups vast amounts of power, money and respect throughout their community. These groups took control over the crime in many areas they resided in and around.
The organized crime groups that have had a big impact on the United States is the Irish Mafia, Italian Mafia, Klu Klux Klan, Hell’s Angels, drug cartels, Black Panthers, Yakuza, Triads, the Baker Gang, and the Mason Family. Each of this organization began to gain momentum during the prohibition era. Many began to form allies with one another to help transport liquor across the country for distribution and selling. These groups formed interrelationships to gain power and money. These interrelationships cause more problems in that it allowed them to cross state line and bring liquor, drugs and money to various parts of their organization. One of the most notorious mafia members that were known by many was AL Capone. According to "Solving Scarface" (n.d.),” he ruled an empire of crime in the Windy City: gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, bribery, narcotics trafficking, robbery, protection rackets, and murder”. Al Capone made some very powerful relationships in Chicago and was able to run a large organized crime group that would end up controlling all the crime there. This leads to a prime example of the legal limitations associated with combating organized crime.
The legal limitations of fighting organized crime starts with the laws of the country. The bill of rights is the first obstacle for law enforcement. They cannot search and arrest a person, house, papers or other effects without the consent of the owner or without a warrant that has been issued by a judge based on probable cause. The second issue is that law enforcement will have to have “a presentment or indictment of a grand jury” in order to charge a person with a capital crime ("Bill Of Rights And Later Amendments", 1995-2013). In the late 1920’s Federal Investigators began to use wire taps and eavesdropping devices to listen in or record conversations between two parties in order to gain evidence and possible acts of crime that would take place. “Telephone wiretapping became an important law enforcement tool in the 1920s during the prohibition era” for gaining information on organized crime groups ("Listening In The Dark - Wiretapping And Privacy In America", n.d.). There were a few problems with the wiretapping. These problems consisted of corrupt law enforcement that let the organized crime group known they were being listened to during phone conversations. The second was that it was a fight to be able to use the transcripts of the wiretap in court due to that it can be considered hears say evidence, it can be a violation of privacy and without a warrant it is illegal to have conducted a wiretap. The third issue law enforcement had been that federal laws did not always govern over each state. Often times in the early 1900s laws were based on state to state and if that state had laws for specific crimes. in part this is why “The years from 1921 to 1933 were sometimes called the "lawless years" because of gangsterism and the public disregard for Prohibition, which made it illegal to sell or import intoxicating beverages” ("History Of The Fbi", n.d.). With the changing of laws from legal to illegal gave the organized crime groups new and more ways to break the law and to gain more money, power, respect and instill fear into many people. In some cases it would lead to a prosecution but in many it did not.
During the 1920’s and 30’s prosecutions of organized crime people or groups were limited and is part of why they are known as the lawless years. The prosecutions lacked evidence, probable cause, witnesses and often times either the jury or judge was bribed or threatened in order for the person or individuals to be set free. In some cases wiretapping and eavesdropping became a problem or was questionable on whether it was legally done or illegally obtained. Over all the prosecutions were far few and in between during this time.
A solution to control organized crime is to have a special task force of 20 to 30 officers who will act as an uprising organization. This team of officer will be able to gain the trust of many other organizations that look to have an ally with them and begin doing business together to gain a higher standing in the underworld. This in turn can give the prosecution evidence against organized crime groups and leads to follow on specific members that they are interested in tracking down. It will also allow for one member of the team of officer to be a witness against them and allow for the others to keep being a part of the organization to obtain further information against other members of the crime organizations.
Since the prohibition era many law enforcement personal look to put a stop to organized crime groups. These groups are large and will continue to run as long as there is a way or means to commit crimes. These groups look to have a life of money, power, and respect and to instill fear in law abiding citizens to keep what they know to themselves and to continue to live their everyday lives. This is how and why many organized crime groups still remain in the United States. References
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Solving Scarface. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2005/march/capone_032805