Patriot Act Stereotypes

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What are some of the stereotypes that television and movies promote about organized crime?
How is the face of organized crime changing? What similarities can be drawn between the organized crime of the previous and current centuries?

In television and movies, organized crime is mostly portrayed in a glamorous fashion involving the Italian Mafia, which used to be the biggest organized crime syndicate in America, but is no longer a huge player in organized crime. This is the fallacy portrayed by television and movies as organized crime is now mostly international with Mexican drug cartels, Ukrainian crime syndicates, and ...