re: We ended the American mafia

The mafia was an organization. We penetrated the organization. It was like killing an elephant.

Most modern gangs in the United States are disorganized. They have no affiliation with each other. It’s like trying to step on ants.

And honestly, it allows them to be more violent. The mafia killed people, but for the most part it was about business. Murders were bad for business, so it was best to keep them to a minimum.

Gangsters today have no plans to make a career out of it.

We could defeat the Germans but not the illiterate camel jockeys. The reasons are the same.

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And honestly, it allows them to be more violent. The mafia killed people, but for the most part it was about business. Murders were bad for business, so it was best to keep them to a minimum.

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I tried to explain this to my Uncles a few months back. I had some experience with the cartels when I lived down south and that was how most of them were. If you weren't in their world, you didn't exist to them. They weren't seeking you out, but good luck if you ever borrowed money or dealt with them. Nuevo Jalisco is different. They are a bunch of coked out teenagers and just want to burn down the world. They are not...business minded.

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I guarantee the good people in those communities will start ratting them out once they see we have their back.

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My brother in Christ go watch The Wire before posting about this topic ever again.

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Doesn’t matter. Look at El Salvador. Cartels are way more ruthless and we’re paying of the politicians and army. And they still ended it with overwhelming enforcement of harsh sentences and mass arrests.

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Bukele basically paid off the leaders to give up all of the low level dudes and gave them absolutely no due process. It’s great that El Salvador has some of its lowest violence ever, but that’s not a replicable process to take.

Did we end the mafia or did those Italians grow out of, or get tired of, street crime? It is semantics but the other group isn't going to realize that killing rivals isn't worth it.

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We ended the American mafia
Why can we end black gang violence?

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The mafia was an organization, it had communication channels, a hierarchy, etc.

The street gangs are mostly independent cells of a handful of people who interact with other gangs as much and as randomly as they interact with people who aren't in gangs. It's like trying to pick out which people in a crowd of thousands like mustard over mayonnaise (or vice versa) without directly asking them.

The root of the cause for most of this is shitty parenting, often generational. Up to 8yrs old is the most important developmental time in a child's life. It's when they form their first trust bonds, basic self-regulation, empathy, emotional security, responsibility, routines, etc. which lays down the foundation for their building of impulse control, relating to others and determining "good" from "bad".

When you spend those years with a parent (or parents) who don't give a frick about fighting in front of you, blaring music about "bitches be hoes," "I'mma kill a nigggah," getting stoned, getting drunk, cheating on partners, keeping their home and yards like shite, getting face and neck tats, etc. then that's what you are likely to grow up emulating. Get enough "families" like that in an area together and you end up with a community like that.

Now bring in some opportunists who tell these families that their shitty lives and shitty communities aren't at all due to their own behaviors but how some nebulous group of "them" is responsible for their shitty lives. Congrats! You've just taken a group suffering primarily due to their lack of self-accountability and given them an outlet to double-down on their negative behaviors.

And here we are, whether you're talking about the housing projects of the trailer parks. And the worst part of it all is that they (as predicted by the movie Idiocracy) breed far more than the families which better hand down the traits of personal responsibility and personal accountability.

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Major mafia figures from back in the day have YouTube channels telling all their stories.

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And it's funny watching Michael Franzese and Sammy Gravano argue with each other over the net about the roles they played in the Mafia and which one was more "Honorable".

Like 2 schoolyard bullies hurling insults at each other--------from a distance.

Because "organized" crime is mostly a white thing.

Gang violence is less centralized and people also don't want to. E called racist by the liberals.