The crackdown on organized crime began with the arrest of the mother-in-law.

Chapter 622 Overall Operation, Creating Deterrence

Qin Chuan will be quite busy for the next period of time, as the entire anti-gang crime task force is already short-handed.

Qin Chuan submitted an application to his superiors, which Zhang Tianyu approved. More than 30 people were transferred from various grassroots units to the anti-gang crime task force.

Even so, everyone was so busy that they practically ate and slept in the office.

In addition, all the local police stations and branches have been extremely busy lately, with a constant stream of reports and complaints against Aijia Supermarket Group and Paradise Entertainment Group.

The anti-organized crime task force issued a special announcement soliciting evidence of crimes committed by the criminal gang led by Tang Jun of Paradise Entertainment Group.

Qin Chuan had anticipated that these people would have a lot of criminal leads, so the announcement required all local police stations to take over the case leads in their jurisdiction and then conduct preliminary verification.

In the past, if these case leads were handed over to the local police station or the branch bureau, they might have been completely ignored and received no response.

But things are different now. Tang Jun and the others have been arrested, so naturally no one speaks up for him anymore.

The local police stations also know what's going on.

Now, anyone who dares to defy the law and suppress these clues is courting death.

Basically, every police station has relevant case leads to verify, and not just one or two, but more than a dozen, or at least three, four, or five.

All these case leads need to be initially verified by personnel from the local police station. The investigation is conducted to form a complete chain of evidence, which is then further submitted to the branch bureau for review before being placed into the anti-organized crime task force.

To put it bluntly, the current anti-organized crime task force is really just a leadership organization, only responsible for reviewing cases submitted from below and providing further guidance.

After all, there are so many leads. Just the Aijia Supermarket Group alone has over 300 leads, and with the long-accumulated leads from the Paradise Entertainment Group, there might be over a thousand. Even with a large team, the anti-organized crime task force can't keep track of everything, and it's impossible to verify all of these thousands of leads.

So ultimately, solving these cases still depends on the local police stations, district and county branches, and criminal investigation teams.

This is also where Qin Chuan's brilliance lies in solving cases.

In the past, when the anti-gang crime task force investigated cases involving organized crime, they always focused on details, started from small things, and began with one clue after another.

This is not to say that there is anything wrong with doing so; on the contrary, it is indeed a normal case-handling procedure and method.

However, there is a drawback to this.

The anti-gang crime task force is not a secretive organization, and the district and county branches and police stations under its jurisdiction are even less so, so the other side will definitely hear some rumors.

Some leads were cut off when the anti-gang crime task force sent people down to investigate. All leads disappeared, all evidence was destroyed, and even those who filed complaints were dealt with—either killed, disappeared, bribed, or threatened. After all sorts of methods were used, the matter was dropped.

Although they were involved in many cases, by tracing each clue one by one and eliminating each clue one by one, the anti-gang crime task force simply had no way of obtaining conclusive evidence of major cases.

So even though Zhang Laifu and his team wanted to do something, they kept running into obstacles and couldn't get anything done.

Of course they can't do it, even if they find some incredible evidence.

There are protectors behind them. What good is this evidence once those protectors step in?

Therefore, the first thing to do in the fight against organized crime is to remove its protective umbrella. Once the protective umbrella is gone, everything else will be easier.

Qin Chuan's method was quite effective, though it was rather extreme. He directly targeted the leaders of the criminal gangs, using criminal cases to lock them down, then found evidence to dismantle their protective umbrellas. He killed the snake from top to bottom first, and then slowly peeled away the skin.