“After all, vigilante justice is better than no justice at all.”
If the TV documentaries regarding organized crime are to be believed, it’s been gong on for a long time. The documentaries consistently portray early 1900s NYC as being crime ridden with an ineffective police force. The mafia sold “protection” which was protection from the mafia, but, a real benefit was that if someone messed with you and you were paying protection, that person was in deep doo doo.
It seems NYC is ripe for the sale of protection.