Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Kyle Dabruzzi have written a new paper entitled “The Convergence of Crime and Terror.” It discusses how the “Al Capone model” of focusing on getting people off the streets by prosecuting for minor included offenses the government can easily prove — in this case, drug trafficking, financial scams, cyber-crime, illegal money transfers, and immigration violations — have been used to fight terrorism.
Terrorism as Organized Crime
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Ummm… isn’t this _exactly_ what the Clinton administration was criticized by the GOP for?
I don’t think anyone ever suggested that using law enforcement techniques to combat terrorism is a bad idea, merely that this shouldn’t be the only tool t our disposal. Indeed, while we’re happy to get mobsters off the street for tax evasion, that doesn’t stop us from trying to get them for murder, racketeering, drug trafficking, and the like.
