Sentences with phrase «increased organized crime»

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Included in the trade agreement is a commitment to work together to increase their cooperation in the World Trade Organization, improve market access on both sides, and strengthen Argentina's capacity to combat organized crime.

Homicide increased at a higher rate between 1900 and 1910 than during Prohibition, and organized crime was well established in the cities before 1920.

Prohibition in the 1920s did little to curb the desire for alcohol and increased the power of organized crime mobs that specialized in the illegal production and sale of alcoholic beverages.

Every time we jack up the tax on tobacco, we are hugely increasing the value of contraband cigarettes to global organized crime.

The testimony before the legislature followed a rally outside organized by Birnbaum, North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Carver and other police union officials to complain about the conditions and decry an increase in crime.

Increasing law enforcement in these two hotspots could help curtail future elephant losses across Africa and disrupt this organized transnational crime.

Increasing threats from organized crime and the presence of unregulated markets have resulted in a «highly significant correlation» between large - scale domestic ivory markets in Asia and Africa and poor law enforcement, the report suggests.

In organized - crime drug cases, we predict that a district judge in the Eighth Circuit, where more than 80 percent of the [appellate] judges were Rs in the relevant period, would sentence a defendant to 25 more months (a 26 percent increase) than a district judge in the Ninth Circuit, where only 40 percent of the [appellate] judges were Rs.

These efforts have resulted in an increase in stolen vehicle recoveries and criminal prosecutions of hard - core and major organized criminal groups, as well as related crimes.

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