The arrest of the senior members of the "Abu Latif" crime organization is an achievement, provided that the punishment for the serious crimes committed by this organization will be appropriate and the legal measures against it will lead to its collapse.
Since the enforcement operation "Safe Route" was launched to deal with the phenomenon of violence and crime on the Arab street, dozens of criminals have been arrested, some of whom also belong to this organization, which is considered one of the strongest crime organizations in Israel.
This success joins the success of the 'safe route' operation, in the framework of which about 40 members of three crime organizations were arrested on the Arab street along with about 500 other major perpetrators of crime.
A huge raid against the crime organization "Abu Latif" // Photo: Police Spokesperson
Black capital
Since the arrival of the Police Commissioner, Senior Superintendent Yaakov Shabtai, the police have taken a firm and uncompromising line against the criminal organizations, which includes the use of undercover agents, some of whom are former 'soldiers' in the most significant criminal gangs.
The activity tonight is the result of an operation that began during the tenure of Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, when he served as Minister of Internal Security after a series of incidents of damage to police vehicles in the Galilee and an accumulation of complaints from businessmen about extorting sponsorship fees.
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Commissioner Shabtai, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Criminal organizations are engaged in diverse areas of crime and in legal areas of activity and their goal is to obtain a large financial profit.
The "black capital" that originates from organized crime, is estimated at billions of shekels and causes enormous damage to the economy and society in Israel.
The working assumption is that the dismantling of a criminal organization will only be achieved by eroding the criminal and business infrastructures that are the source of its profits and expropriating its property.
Seized luxury cars, photo: police spokesmen
In light of this, two economic units were established in the last two years with the aim of attacking the organizations through the pocket and the results accordingly: since their establishment, funds worth about two billion NIS have been confiscated.
In the long run, it will be possible to finally crown tonight's operation as a success if key figures in the organization are indeed neutralized by filing indictments against them, confiscating their property through confiscation or returning property to the victims or paying a ransom to the tax authority, and thus the illegal businesses of the organization will be humanely harmed.
Loot confiscated from the "Abu Latif" organization, photo: police spokeswoman
Several crime groups play in the Israeli crime world.
Some are more dominant, some less so.
A crime organization operates in a hierarchical manner, but there are also crime families, what unites them is the loyalty to the family and to its leader.
Criminals belonging to organizations or families sat together in prison.
They know each other and sometimes they take the same rivalries with them to prison and when they are released they have more freedom to act.
In recent years, the police have taken actions to improve the fight against criminal organizations.
The fight against criminal organizations is concentrated under one roof and intelligence and performance capabilities have been developed.
And despite everything - crime cannot be eradicated.
In the end it's about money, a lot of money that rolls into the hands of those who don't need any means to get it.
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