Ethical Constraints In Law Enforcement

In the modern day, organized crime and criminals have expanded both their methods of communication and their methods of work. The criminal today uses the advancements in technology faster than law enforcement and the legal system can create properly worded laws that allow law enforcement to implement the same tools themselves, making it much more legally precarious to counter criminal operations. One of the primary reason that law enforcement officials face this dilemma is that law enforcement must constantly adhere to a code of ethics, whereas criminals can and do bypass any of the ethical constraints that potentially limits law enforcement, ultimately using ethics and legal wording or loopholes to their advantage. Criminals currently use

This increase in shipping was not strictly due to legal business picking up; rather, a large component of the increase can be attributed to illegal activities from opportunistic criminals, making of the freight industry the means of distribution for those criminals as they capitalize on their illegal economy using “legal” means. The ways that the criminals are using the freight industry makes it very difficult for law enforcement to combat these operations. The United States Border Patrol officers, along with customs control officers, have massive enforcement duties along extensive international borders, the magnitude of which manifests in many weak spots along those borders, thus, making it very easy for criminals and the criminal organizations to weasel around border enforcement in the completion of their dirty work. On a regular, daily basis, people will find different countries, regardless of their compassion or hatred towards one another, working together to sell, trade, and prosper in many illegal activities. Besides the everyday, mainstream news that tells one about the illegal drugs that come through the country, people of all nationalities and orientations are being kidnapped, collected, bartered, traded, and sold into a modern day slave trade. The massive amounts of illegal money that this modern day slave trade, in addition to other commodity smuggling, generates is a primary driving factor

The foreign value of many vehicles far exceeds the money they spent for the procurement and export arrangements, easily allowing the organization to make its money back with a very large capital gain. This money growth allows the criminals to purchase technology and corrupt the use of that technology in ways that allow these criminal activities to elude law enforcement efforts to try to catch and stop them. Through the corruption of many legal and legitimate businesses and the use of off-shore banking, these criminal organizations are effectively able to launder/wash this money, moving it around the world, at will, and to make all their activities appear very much