Transnational organized crime expands in a tentacular manner, similar to how a kraken attacks ships. Criminal organizations establish distribution routes or "tentacles" across multiple countries to feed their operations. Disrupting one tentacle is not enough, as the criminal networks find ways to maintain control over geographic areas through corrupt officials and established trafficking patterns. International cooperation is needed among law enforcement to develop strategies, like "cooking the kraken in its own ink," to effectively counter transnational criminal threats.

2. Charles “Lucky” Luciano
Let me walk you through this concept…

3. • Transnational organized crime involves the planning and execution of illicit business ventures by
groups or networks of individuals working in more than one country. These criminal groups use
systematic violence and corruption to achieve their goals. Crimes commonly include money
laundering; human smuggling; cyber crime; and trafficking of humans, drugs, weapons, endangered
species, body parts, or nuclear material.
• Transnational crime ring activities weaken economies and financial systems and undermine
democracy. These networks often prey on governments that are not powerful enough to oppose
them, prospering on illegal activities, such as drug trafficking, that bring them immense profits. In
carrying out illegal activities, they upset the peace and stability of nations worldwide, often using
bribery, violence, or terror to achieve their goals.
• The political turmoil of the 21st century and advances in technology make transnational crime a
concern for the United States. Increased travel and trade and advances in telecommunications and
computer technology have had the unintended effect of providing avenues for the rapid expansion
of transnational organized crime activities. Policing objectives in the United States must extend
beyond national borders to seek out and target this type of crime. Only through international
collaboration and information exchange can the United States develop effective protocol and
policies for countering these crimes and mount a serious opposition.
National Institute of Justice: www.nij.gov

5. • Think of transnational crime like a kraken and
the countries it attacks like “ships of state.”
• Krakens come from the deep to attack ships; if
the kraken can get enough tentacles around
the ship it can drag it to the bottom.

6. Transnational crime takes advantage of the fact that the
illicit supply and demand for a product will be filled by
criminal groups.
Once logistical commodity “tentacles” have been Well
established it is no surprise that groups will often fight to stated
solidify their position. Mr.
Luciano!

7. • When Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) networks
emerge there is often a disruption of law
enforcement activities due to the fact that the
network may be working on strategies that can be
executed by embedded personnel; this will often
overwhelm the ability of different criminal justice
systems to proactively address issues.

8. You want to take me on
before your crew even
knows who the captain
is…hey great! Good luck!

9. UNITED STATES: Weapon MEXICO: Drugs
"There's no such
thing as good
money or bad
money. There's
just money."

10. • All tentacles “feed” the
same “mouth.”
• Tentacles can be cut off at
the tip, but to stop it from
feeding the mouth it must
be severed.
• The dactylus (suckers) of
the tentacles may continue
to “mark” the economy.

11. • Think of the dactylus of the tentacle as the
areas that are “gripped” by the tentacles…
• These areas provide “traction” which enables
the tentacle to maintain cohesion over a given
area.

13. • “Cooked in ink” refers to a dish in which the ink of the squid is used to cook it. As criminal
activities “blot” the area local, state and federal law enforcement must agree on the same
“recipe” to “cook” the kraken.

14. • Transnational crime is tentacular in mode of expansion.
• Transnational Criminal Organizations (TOC) are like krakens; countries are “ships of state.”
• The tentacles will try to drag the ships of state to the bottom.
• Each tentacle may represent a distribution route used to feed the mouth.
• Not all tentacles are viewed by “captains” (state governments) as dangerous.
• The dactylus provide criminal cohesion over the length of the tentacle.
• Tractional Cohesion Points (TCPs) are areas of control which allow the tentacle to “adhere.”
• Corrupt officials may aid in smoothing out TCPs.
• The more TCPs the stronger the hold on a given geographic area.
• Using a “dot-to- dot” matrix TCPs will start to trace invisible tentacles.
• TCPs are autogenic if adhesion is strong enough.
• Cutting off the tip of a single tentacle will not address all TCPs.
• En sue tinta is a strategy in which the “ink” (criminal activity) is used to cook the kraken.
• En sue tinta must be a recipe followed by local, state and federal law enforcement.
• En sue tinta is the dish that is served…will the captain and crew eat the dish?

15. THE END
Bye!