Organized Crime

Abstract

One of the few statements that can be made with complete assurance about organized crime is that doing something about it is not easy. Sizable segments of the public who are aware of it and indeed have been victimized by it won't even talk about the subject, let alone "get involved" as complainants or witnesses. Executive leaders in government, rarely commanding the re sources required to deal with organized crime, have, until re cently, ignored the subject. It comes as no surprise, then, that the criminal justice system in the United States has not responded to the record.