Strategies addressing organised crime
Strategies recently adopted at federal level demonstrate the authorities' increasing aware-ness of the impact of organised crime syndicates, in particular international ones.
The 2008 Law Enforcement Strategy to Combat Inter-national Organized Crime identified the strategic threats posed by such groups. These included penetrating strategic sectors of the economy, using cyberspace to target US infrastructure, and exploiting US and international financial systems.
The 2010 National Security Strategy marked the growing recognition of organised crime as not only a public security issue, but a threat to national security. The strategy stressed that transnational crime continued to expand dramatically in size, scope, and influence. It pointed to the crime-terror nexus, with terrorists using criminal networks for logistical support and funding. It concluded that combating transnational crime required a multidimensional strategy.
A Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime was adopted in 2011. In the Strategy's own words: "Strategy is organized around a single unifying principle: to build, balance, and integrate the tools of American power to combat transnational organized crime and related threats to national security — and to urge our foreign partners to do the same