Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI will continue to shed the number of agents assigned to fight the mafia as the demand for other threats increases, The New York Times reports.
For the third time in five years, the bureau will decrease its agents assigned to organized crime to about three dozens.
In the meantime, more agents are being assigned to newer threats such as cyber crimes and global terrorism, The Times said.
The FBI’s fight against the mafia has been largely successful.
But some worry the reductions in investigators will allow the weakened crime families a chance to reorganize, The Times wrote.
Jerry Capeci of Gang Land News has been reporting on the reduced number of agents working on mob cases.
