2007 Annual Report: Organised Crime in Canada (PDF; 2.7 MB)
Source: Criminal Intelligence Service Canada
From Introduction:

The 2007 Annual Report on Organized Crime in Canada aims to provide an overall strategic picture of organized crime in Canada and give an understanding of the numerous ways organized crime impacts the lives of Canadians. This report, the only comprehensive overview of organized crime in Canada available to the public, highlights a variety of criminal markets and the threats they pose to communities across the country.
Organized crime is a tangled web, has no boundaries, and can only be addressed through national, provincial, municipal and territorial cooperation.

Given that organized crime is increasingly complex and works to continuously insulate itself from detection, its impact and negative socio-economic effects are not always readily apparent. By discussing existing criminal markets and determining the criminal capabilities of crime groups, CISC aims to connect the far-reaching consequences of their criminal activity to the communities they target.

Each year CISC highlights a particular aspect of organized crime to provide a more detailed picture of the specific impact of organized crime. In the 2006 Feature Focus on street gangs, CISC identified the relationship between ‘guns and gangs.’ Building on this issue, the 2007 Feature Focus concerns the illegal firearms market in Canada, a public safety and organized crime threat that affects both individual Canadians and our communities.

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