The first issue is the interaction among politics, the media, and resource allocations and the resulting tendency to characterize the problem inaccurately and make policy and resource allocation decisions that have little to do with the control of smuggling of crime of any sort. The second issue is the need for less rhetoric and more empirical research as a basis for policymaking. Additional issues include the need to focus on criminal markets and conduct a market by market analysis, the sparse and often unreliable information evaluating the impact of transnational crime and the impact of law enforcement efforts to address it, and lack of clarity about the concepts of organized crime and organized transnational crime. Further issues include the need to focus on the local bases of transnational crimes, the organization of policing for enforcement related to organized crime and transnational crime, and consideration of alternative policing options for law enforcement related to transnational crime.