Skull and crossbones buccaneers have resurfaced with "Terminator"-style tactics, shining a spotlight on an age-old crime that some experts warn could inspire terrorists “The Carnival-owned cruise liner Sea bourn” Spirit recently fended off a pirate attack along Africa's eastern coast, with one person sustaining injuries. The attempt to hijack a cruise ship highlights the pirates' growing audacity - wielding rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns, the pirates off of Somalia's coast have stolen some of the fairy-tale glamour of yesteryear's high sea thieves. “Ahoy-There”. In 2008 there were 293 incidents of piracy against ships worldwide - 11 per cent up on the year before. Attacks off Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden almost trebled.
Pain: extreme discomfort, suffering or agony. Whether a crew member of a pirate ship were being punished by another crew member or a prisoner being totured by a fearsome pirate, pain is most likely the first word that comes to mind. Throughout the 1700 and 1800’s unruly pirates sailed the seven seas in search for riches. To maintain order on their ships pirates would create rule, and if a crew member were to break a rule a fitting punishment would be assigned. If a prisoner, that was not part of the crew, was captured by pirates they may be tortured or killed for many reasons.
Barbary Pirates and American Captives In 1804 American ships set out of Maryland headed to a Spanish port. On their way the encountered a ship full of Barbary pirates, a North African Muslim based crew. The Pirates jumped over and boarded the American shipped with weapons, forcing the Americans to strip to shirts and draws. By the end of the year the Pirates had taken over more than ten ships and vessels. The pirates enslaved and killed the crews.
The History of Pirate Coast HSS 201-002 Fatma Hamdan Alabdouli 201231428 5th. November. 2015 Introduction The Pirate Coast included the emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi because this was where European and Arab pirates from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century attacked foreign ships. In 1818, there was the British campaign against the pirates. For this reason, Britain concluded a treaty of peace to end piracy and plundering and desist from the slave trade.
The increase in power within the drug cartels makes the future of organized crime seem bleak regarding society, but positive for the OC units themselves. The 1980s brought about many changes in the world of drug trade. The United States government began blocking trades routes from the Caribbean, forcing drug smugglers to take different routes. The new routes ran through the Pacific and Central American isthmus which led smugglers straight to Mexico. Mexicans can smuggle just about anything across the border and upon this realization came the Mexican drug cartel boom.
In addition, gangs increasingly are smuggling large quantities of heroin, cocaine, and MDMA (also known as ecstasy) into the United States. Local street gangs in rural, suburban, and urban areas transport drugs within very specific areas, most of what seem to be low socio-economical areas. Some gangs collect millions of dollars per month selling illegal drugs, trafficking weapons, operating prostitutions rings, and selling stolen property. Gangs launder their proceeds by investing in real estate, recording studios, motor cycle shops, and construction companies. The extent of gangs/drugs A proliferation in gangs will also mean a growth in drug and violence in our community’s and threatening society in general.
Police are often too overwhelmed to protect all citizens from violent crime. 7. Banning guns will create another potentially large source of organized criminal revenue, as a black market for guns will surely develop. 8. Banning guns will take away yet another piece of our liberty, which is one more step to
Pirates of the Caribbean: How Seafaring Bandits Impacted the World By Tiss Zaitz Pirate: One who robs, plunders and engages in similar acts at sea, not under the jurisdiction of one nation, but for his own splendor and personal gain. This definition gives a simple description of the modern idea of piracy in all its glorified and romanticized hype. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, however, describing piracy was a more complex task. Perspective played a large role in defining it; for one country’s pirate was another country’s freedom fighter. Other terminology complicates the attempt to define pirate, such as privateer, corsair and buccaneer, because they seem to share the same basic qualities but their origins and allegiances may vary.
They face weak penalties, even after a half dozen convictions, and stealing thousands of dollars of equipment and causing immense property damage. The good news is that many of the stolen cars are recovered; the bad news is that they are often damaged by the thieves, who rip apart dashboards for stereos, recklessly or maliciously smash the body of the car, or even burn it to remove fingerprints. Throughout time, crime has played in an important part in the function of society. Which reaches out and takes a stranglehold on the human-interest angle of the general public's mind, and makes us become enveloped in the thought processes of the modern criminal. Along these lines, the fascination
However, the organized crime families in American began long before this. “Piracy was the result of the British rulers employing a number of seafaring buccaneers to attack and disrupt Spanish shipping to defend the American Colonies. The pirates, who were referred to as privateer soon began to attack ships other than Spanish and form alliances with corrupt governors of the colonies” (Mallory, 2007 p. 16). One does not usually see the connection between pirates and organized crime unless one studies the characteristics of organized crime. Some of the following are a few examples of the characteristics of organized crime according to Mallory (2007), Governed by rules and codes of secrecy, Has an organized hierarchy, Uses force and intimidation, Restricts membership, and Provides illegal goods and services as demanded by the public.” These are