It’s just the truth. The neighborhoods where there is a Mafia presence are usually pretty damn safe.
But hey hurt the average person with higher prices on construction or getting suckered into a boiler room stock.
Also, the rule to not sell drugs has been broken back to the French connection and before that Luciano in Italy.
And a lot of Siclians have come over in the past decade or so. They have no problem selling drugs.
Drugs are part of the reason Gotti killed Castellano.
Castellano rightly believed that Gotti’s crew was pushing narcotics and that was punishable by death.
Gotti struck first.
As far as loansharking, if you’re crazy enough to go to them and try and pay back 100 to 300 percent interest a year plus the original loan, you deserve what’s coming.
I like the education about OC in NY that I get here.
Most of it makes little sense to me being a small town kid.
I used to own a house in the sleepy, out-of-the-way area of Sunland-Tujunga in L.A. County. It's right up against the local mountains.
In the 70s, 80s, and 90s, a 1%er biker gang ruled that area. It was quiet, peaceful, and very safe.
Around the time GWB came to office, the LAPD began systematically suppressing the gang, which caused them to seek greener pastures. Within a few years, the scum of Hollywood and the San Fernando valley began creeping in. By 2004, my once peaceful little town was transformed into a 3rd world, urban shithole.
We sold the house and moved to Texas less than a year later.
“It’s just the truth. The neighborhoods where there is a Mafia presence are usually pretty damn safe.”
I witnessed that dynamic myself in an unamed Chicago suburb in the 70’s. Lets put it this way. Some ill informed Canadian criminals burglarized the wrong houses.They have not been heard from since.