NCJ Number
158729
Date Published
1980
Length
243 pages
Annotation
This document contains hearings held before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations regarding the use of violence by organized crime groups in the U.S.
Abstract
Witnesses represented the U.S. Department of Justice, Organized Crime and Racketeering Section; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; and local police agencies. Witnesses discussed the involvement of organized crime syndicates in drug trafficking and other drug- related offenses, in murder contracts, in explosions and bombings, and in other types of violent crime.