Compare And Contrast Terrorism And Organized Crime

In today’s world there is a huge problem with terrorism and organized crime. Now when a lot of people look at terrorism and organized crime some would think that the two are different and yet in a way they are different but they are the same in a way to. For example terrorism is the use of violence and intimidation for the purpose of political gain (dictionary.com. n.d.). Now organized crime is considered to be the illegal behavior which is carried and planned out by a group of people. Now both of these things are considered to be a crime and are carried out by a group of people in order to achieve their goal of intimidation, money laundering, and chaos. Yet, they are different because terrorism uses violence or the threat of being violent against innocent civilians in order to accomplish their mission. Unfortunately, an organized crime group is a conspiratorial enterprise that is engaged in illicit activities in order to generate money but not to scare or harm civilians.

Unfortunately, terrorism is known to the United States very well because there are a lot of threats of terrorist acts against the United States. Unlike, a criminal threat a terrorist threat is considered to be very serious and has to be acted upon as soon as possible because these

The first way they track them is by a group called “The Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). This task force helps track the terrorist activities and all of their movement to determine what they are planning. Once they find out any information they report it back to the FBI which is the lead agency. Furthermore, they find out how they plan on doing these things through tracking their cell phones, emails, and text messages. They catch some of the operatives and get them to give out information on how the terrorist cells are operating as well as where they plan to attack