Law enforment strategists must understand the complex network of relationships in their operational environment and use this knowledge to design adap-tive strategies that target those relationships. In doing so, law enforcement agencies... more
Law enforment strategists must understand the complex network of relationships in their operational environment and
use this knowledge to design adap-tive strategies that target those relationships.
In doing so, law enforcement agencies may find themselves with a
thorough enough understanding of the various criminal organizations within their operational environment that they can anticipate likely
responses to enforcement actions and plan the
next wave of enforcement actions in advance.
By understanding the environment as it exists in real time and continuing the cycle of understanding, designing, influencing, and evaluating, designers can guide their target through a series of intended responses. When used against
criminal organizations, such as street gangs, adaptive strategies target and exploit the relationships among middle-tier operators resulting in their incarceration and removal from the operational environment. Without these middle-tier operators, the ability for the criminal
organization to effectively conduct its criminal affairs is lost, resulting in the disruption, destabilization, and dismantling of the organization in a way that prevents a power vacuum and the violence typically associated with it.
By understanding the environment as it exists in real time and continuing the cycle of understanding, designing, influencing, and evaluating, designers can guide their target through a series of intended responses. When used against
criminal organizations, such as street gangs, adaptive strategies target and exploit the relationships among middle-tier operators resulting in their incarceration and removal from the operational environment. Without these middle-tier operators, the ability for the criminal
organization to effectively conduct its criminal affairs is lost, resulting in the disruption, destabilization, and dismantling of the organization in a way that prevents a power vacuum and the violence typically associated with it.
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As law enforcement professionals, we often hold two things as fact. First, we acknowledge that the world in which we operate is ever changing and different than the one we were familiar with in the past. Second, when designing strategies... more
As law enforcement professionals, we often hold two things as fact. First, we acknowledge that the world in which we operate is ever changing and different than the one we were familiar with in the past. Second, when designing strategies to combat crime and criminal activity, we look into the past for strategies that have proven successful and reimplement them. That the contradictory nature of these two things is rarely recognized and even more rarely reconciled continues to be a source of mystery. However, by placing these two statements side by side, it should be clear that they stand in direct conflict with one another. If today’s operational environment is different than that of the past, how can any previously implemented strategy have any real hope of being successful? Crime and criminal organizations may be similar to those that came before them, but the players and their relationships with each other are different. This dramatically affects our existing framework for underst...