Interesting thread. I might as well throw in my two cents; I'm not doing anything else.
My experience:
The HA overt activities are generally law abiding enough to keep LEO from needing to get involved.
Make no mistake the HA are a criminal organization and their covert activities are just as brutal as back in the day. What has changed is that it is a much more modernized more professionally run criminal organization.
Have I met and interacted with HA on a personal level? Yes. And my interaction was a very positive one, but I had guest privileges. If I didn't have the protection of my host it would not have been a comfortable situation; they are not boy scouts.
OK that's my two cents, not adjusted for inflation.
