Violent Criminal Enterprises Bureau

Targeting large-scale criminal enterprises, including traditional organized crime, large-scale smuggling, money laundering, gun trafficking, drugs, and street gangs.

Since taking office, District Attorney Katz has been actively examining the inner workings of the Office and creating an organizational structure that makes sense – one in which we are best serving the needs of the people, best utilizing our resources, while creating a safer Queens County. As such, District Attorney Katz created the Violent Criminal Enterprises Bureau, addresses gun violence and other criminal activity perpetrated by gangs and narcotics organizations operating in and around our communities.

This bureau will work collaboratively and conduct long-term investigations of criminal enterprises in conjunction with federal, state, and local law enforcement. Under DA Katz’s leadership, this bureau will implement successful investigative strategies and develop how to best coordinate our intelligence, in order to make a more meaningful and lasting disruption of violent crime in our neighborhoods. The bureau will target large-scale criminal enterprises, including traditional organized crime, large-scale smuggling, money laundering, gun trafficking, drugs, and street gangs. The focus will be the investigation and prosecution of known street-gang members who have committed serious offenses, including the possession and sale of firearms and other violent crimes and individuals involved in the trafficking of large quantities of drugs into our neighborhoods.