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According to the U.S. Department of Justice, as much as 80 percent of Arizona’s serious crime is committed by organized crime gangs. Gang members by and large are career criminals. Experts tell me Arizona has at least 30,000 organized crime gang members, many with ties to the Mexican Mafia and Mexican drug trafficking organizations that control the vast majority of organized crime in Arizona. Career criminals, many with outstanding arrest warrants, are at war with society, and they kill police officers with impunity. Without serious change, things will continue on their current destructive path or maybe even get worse. Arizona still lacks the fundamental tools and a statewide law enforcement policy necessary to effectively attack career criminals.
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