<p>Momrath and StickerShock thanks for that; I don’t know beans about art crime either or even just art by itself, but, I do know that crime doesn’t stop or go away in the face of legislation, law enforcement and increased security. Criminals, terrorists and their ilk simply find new ways to commit the crimes, and usually through the avenue of least resistance combined with greatest ROI. </p>
<p>Specific to terrorist financing, there are fascinating, emerging areas of investigation and prevention activities re hawalas, also flooding money via cyber countries (by issuing diplomatic passports which are in turn used to open accounts in cyber banks) and micronations - there are actually new fake banks and shell banks appearing with some regularity - they seem to exist for a period of time until something comes along and forces them to disappear. </p>
<p>I could have this wrong - but I think NYC is the only city in the country whose police department has a counter-terrorism unit, and the opportunities for their retired detectives in the private sector are phenomenal. Plus, on the federal level, just a couple of weeks ago, one of the top government executives in FinCEN (under Treasury) was hired as the Global Chief of Security for Disney. Can you just even imagine what his compensation package looks like? It has to be incredible. </p>
<p>So, I don’t think a college grad who wants to go into an active field of law enforcement, even if it’s a very weird niche, is going to have much of a problem buying the groceries. (But Momrath your point about trying to pay back large loans is very well taken - I heard you, and agree.)</p>