§ 15026 Organized Crime Enforcement Focus

• •The law tells the police to focus on stopping big groups that plan and work together to do illegal stuff.
• •These groups might sell bad things like drugs, or do things like force people to pay money they don’t owe (loan sharking).
• •They also go after groups that try to take over real businesses by doing bad things, like scaring people or not paying taxes.
• •The goal is to stop these groups from hurting people and breaking the law over and over.

A group of people works together to sell drugs in a neighborhood. They also threaten shop owners to pay them money for 'protection' so they don’t get hurt.

The police will investigate this group because they are doing illegal things together, like selling drugs and scaring people. The law says the police should stop groups like this from hurting others and breaking the law.