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WHAT'S NEXT?: Crime is morphing away from traditional methods to more sophisticated technological approaches. A decline of traditional hierarchical criminal groups and networks will be accompanied by the expansion of a virtual criminal underground made up of individual criminal entrepreneurs. At the same time, forward-looking agencies are equipping themselves with smart technologies to outfox the criminals. Keep up to date with crime changes below.

[New] Terrorists based in Somalia pose a security threat to the United States, while piracy off the Somali coast affects U.S. economic interests and has led to the murders of U.S. citizens.
[New] In 2021-22, Public Safety Canada will continue to play a leadership role in protecting Canadians from cyber crimes and other malicious cyber activity.
[New] Public Safety Canada will continue to work with partners to address and combat hate groups, online hate and harassment, ideologically motivated violent extremism, and terrorist organizations.
[New] Cyber-espionage, cyber-sabotage, cyber-foreign-influence, and cyber-terrorism pose significant threats to Canada's national security, its interests, as well as its economic stability.
[New] International terrorism from groups such as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Al Qaeda present a threat from many others.
[New] Terrorism continues to present a serious threat to international peace and security, affecting many UN Member States, their populations and socio-economic development.
[New] The New York City Council passed landmark legislation last week that will allow citizens to sue police for violations of their Fourth Amendment rights.
[New] The relative accessibility and low cost of information and communication technologies (ICT) enable new actors to pose a threat to European interests: smaller nations such as Iran or North Korea but also non-State actors such as criminal networks.
[New] Recent moves by state-sponsored hackers and criminals to exploit a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange are a timely reminder that cyber threats continue to grow, requiring a continuous cycle of investment in improved practices.
[New] The corollary is that a more comprehensive approach to great power competition should improve the United States' ability to address jihadist terrorist threats across the Muslim world.
[New] Both the National Security Strategy and the National Defense Strategy make clear that great power competition is the United States' strategic priority, and both acknowledge the enduring importance of defending against terrorist threats and consolidating hard-earned gains in Afghanistan and Iraq.
[New] Though the Afghan security forces have fared poorly against the Taliban, they could continue to be a useful partner in combatting and containing particular terrorist organizations like the Islamic State.
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi' s brutal rise to power in Egypt coincided with the increased activity of militant groups in the Sinai peninsula, marking another example of the crisis factory and the way tyrants need the threat of terrorism to reinforce their shaky legitimacy.
As part of the Integrated Review, the creation of a new Counter Terrorism Operations Centre, which will for the first time create a single integrated counterterrorism centre, can play a critical role keeping the UK and Europe safe from the rising threat of Iran-backed terrorism.
Algorithms performing risk assessments are in use by some legal jurisdictions in the United States to determine an offenders risk of committing a crime in the future.
All of a sudden, certain people in various parts of the world, particularly Europe, started misperceiving Russia's role as potentially helping to resolve that civil war, or helping to resolve Europe's terrorism threat from ISIS, or Europe's mass migration problem.
Trans-border threats directly affecting New Zealand's security include malicious cyber activities, foreign interference, malign use of emerging technology (including in outer space), transnational crime, irregular migration and terrorism.
The security of the Sahel passes through the stabilization of Mali, a country in which different factors coexist, from internal political fractures to the threat of terrorist and criminal groups.
China's inability to inspire fear and terror among the Taiwanese population can be attributed to its failure to build a narrative of progressively increasing threats to Taiwan, and how threats to Taiwan from China instead come across as repetitive and mundane.
Four neo-Nazi groups banned in Europe and North America are operating in Australia, it has been revealed, as police and terrorism experts warn of an increasing global threat posed by lone-wolf far-right extremists.
Terrorism, organised crime and unregulated migration not only pose a threat to European internal security, but also have a serious impact on the stability of Europe's immediate neighbourhood.
The United States has an historic opportunity to work with democracies around the world to address dangerous online content, including white supremacist terrorism.

Last updated: 10 April 2021

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