New Responses to Organized Crime

Law & Order: Computer-based crackdowns and gouging gangland pocketbooks
Source
Chicago Public Media (An NPR member organization): WBEZ Chicago
Ernest Brown, James "Chips" Stewart, and Joseph H. McMahon
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It used to be that the beat cop and confidential informants were among the big weapons law enforcement used to catch the "bad-guy" gangbangers. But more and more, the “good-guys” are using the courts and computer to catch or deter members of organized crime.

A group of experts in the fields of law and order join us to discuss the newer and different ways in which authorities are fighting gang activity.