Mob arrests raise issues of crime, port security

Mob arrests raise issues of crime, port security - BusinessWeek: "recent federal sweep netted more than 120 defendants, among them several dockworkers and longshoremen union officials. The FBI called it one of the largest Mafia takedowns in history.

The indictments seem to indicate that organized crime elements persists in the ports, despite decades of law enforcement efforts to root them out.

Some experts say it's a troubling trend, because the ports are considered extremely sensitive homeland security targets in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. They say that although the indictments don't indicate any direct threats to port security, having criminal elements in the ports could pose a danger.

Others say that a badly diminished mob no longer wields the influence among dockworkers that it once did, and that changes in the way ports operate have made them safer."

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