The “Dark Figure of Crime” is the amount of underreported as well as unreported criminal crimes that society does not report to authority. In this case, unreported crimes do not make it to the statistics of official crime. One believes that some people in society are hesitant to report a crime to police for numerous reasons. These reasons can be because of the act of negative criminal behavior from one individual to another. A few common unreported crimes that deal with negative sexual related criminal behavior toward another individual are visible.
There were no regulations that were in place that made the sellers tell how much and what particular ingredients were in the drugs that were being sold. Another reason was that certain drugs created a dependence which lead to the selling of certain drugs be seen as a victimization of the public. Crime was also a factor that lead to the establishing of regulations. The drug user eventually came to be seen as another threat to the public. 2.
For example, some officers would take drugs for themselves that they would normally give to the department as evidence to build a case against the offender or offenders. Another example would be that officers would make deals with drug dealers as incentives to get drugs and not make an arrest. Also, monies from drug deals that are seized by police officers sometimes go missing or unreported due to corruption within the department. The most memorable and possibly most famous moment in corruption in policing when it comes to narcotics is the case of Frank Lucas
There are three exceptions to the exclusionary rule.. The first exception to the exclusionary rule is the Independent Source Doctrine. This is when evidence was seized twice but the first time it was seized it was illegally done and the second time it was legally obtained. An example of this would be if I was an officer and I went to a suspected drug dealers house without a search warrant and obtained drugs and took pictures this would not be legally obtained. However if I had a search warrant the second time and did the same thing I did on the illegal seizure it would be.
They are illegal because they are dangerous. Moreover, these drugs are not a threat to American society because they are illegal; they are illegal because they are a threat to American society. Less restrictive drug laws will greatly increase this dangerous drug use. Only ¼ to ½ of people can easily get illegal drugs (other than marijuana). However, after legalization, these drugs would be much more widely and easily available.
There are also disadvantages with this program. Because the program was reconstructed in 1992 using different methods, data is not able to be compared accurately (ICPSR). Another disadvantage is it only measures crimes that are considered personal or property related, it does not measure business, or commercial crimes and it does not report crimes on individuals under 12 years old. Personal crimes include crimes such as rape and sexual assault, robbery, aggravated and simple assault, while property crimes consist of such crimes as burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and vandalism. Classification also presents difficulties.
Personal Perception of Organized Crime The term “crime” is a basic term that explains the act that a person is commit that goes against law enforcement and what is deemed to be legal. Illegal actions do not necessarily have to injure an individual, and it does not necessarily mean that violence has to take place for it to be considered a crime. A criminal act can be as simple as stealing a small item from a local department store. Organized crime is much more serious than a minor criminal act. Organized crime contains of a collection of individuals who have a structured plan or an agenda of corruption.
Gardner’s ideas are too drastic and I believe he didn’t have enough support in his argument that his plans would actually decrease the murders in gang violence. To say that his thoughts on drugs are the missing piece to gang-violence; I agree with him one-hundred percent. Yet, to pinpoint on drugs as the only reason viciousness and violence happens in gangs, is almost too good to be true. Dan may as well fly off to Never-Never land, because those dreams aren’t ever coming true. First off, I would like to thank Gardner for his enlightening point of view, of how gang violence is heavily influenced by the whole drug trade and the black market that associates itself with it.
I do believe we should not coddle them with taxpayer treatment programs that a lot of them enter and exit repeatedly. But, on the other hand, if those treatment centers do offer some sort of success, then it a good thing to offer them in hopes of the offenders not depending on drugs and having to commit crimes to get those drugs thus reducing crime, the courts, jails, and prison population. Drug treatment programs are less expensive than prisons and more effective at helping people turn their lives around. Many of the programs available to inmates are provided by organizations like AA and NA, which send volunteers into the prisons. Most of the volunteers are previous offenders who have changed their lives and now want to help other change their life.
Some are petty and some are not. I would rather see tax money go to education programs or cancer research than housing prison inmates charged with drug possession or distribution. Secondly, by legalizing drugs, dirty and “laced” drugs will be off the street. People will know what they are actually buying if it can be regulated by the government. Bancroft writes, “Uptake of heroin Harlem, New York, in the early 1970s had been reduced as heroin users died of overdoses, poisoning by adulterated heroine, or hepatitis caught from infected injecting equipment,” (P 124).