Title: Transnational organized crime - Wikipedia
Headings: Transnational organized crime
Transnational organized crime
Contents
History
Effects
Combating transnational organized crime
Enforcement in the United States
Tools of Prosecution
White House Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime
Enforcement agencies of the United States
National Guard
United States Southern Command
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Department of Treasury
Drug Enforcement Administration
Federal Bureau of Investigation
International Enforcement Agencies
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
Interpol
World Bank
International Monetary Fund
Europol
Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering
References
External links

Content: The United Nations did not recognize Interpol as an intergovernmental organization until 1971. On June 17, 1971, President Nixon declared "America's public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive." With this declaration, the United States began the War on Drugs. At the time, the flow of illicit narcotics into its borders was deemed a major risk to the health and safety of Americans, and as a result, enormous resources were spent in the effort to curtail both the supply of and demand for illegal drugs. In the three decades that followed President Nixon's declaration, drug trafficking served as the dominant form of what the United States and many of its allies viewed as transnational organized crime. In recent years, that viewpoint has changed. The character of transnational organized crime has changed in three major ways since the war on drugs began. Drug trafficking has become more diversified, criminal networks have harnessed new methods of conducting business, and the structure of criminal networks has changed. Organized crime has gone global, giving way to the term transnational organized crime.