PS140O: Projecting Power
2025-02-25
The Politics of Sin, Meier (1994)
The Politics of Sin, Meier (1994)
The commission’s chairman described the situation in New York City as “desperate” and noted that there were two cigarette distribution systems in the city, one legal and one illegal. The commission’s report found that the illegal side of the cigarette trade was largely the province of organized crime and documented a host of crimes associated with it, including attempted murder, torture, kidnapping, and armed robbery. The report concluded that law enforcement efforts had been unable to effectively deal with the problems associated with the illicit market and described such efforts as “completely ineffective and a failure.”
Source: New York State Commission of Investigation, 1971, p. 130, in Cigarette Taxes, Black Markets, and Crime Lessons from New York’s 50-Year Losing Battle, Patrick Fleenor.
The commission’s chairman described the situation in New York City as “desperate” and noted that there were two cigarette distribution systems in the city, one legal and one illegal. The commission’s report found that the illegal side of the cigarette trade was largely the province of organized crime and documented a host of crimes associated with it, including attempted murder, torture, kidnapping, and armed robbery. The report concluded that law enforcement efforts had been unable to effectively deal with the problems associated with the illicit market and described such efforts as “completely ineffective and a failure.”
Source: New York State Commission of Investigation, 1971, p. 130, in Cigarette Taxes, Black Markets, and Crime Lessons from New York’s 50-Year Losing Battle, Patrick Fleenor.
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