A lot of fuzz is made when there's snitching in the Mafia, but people tend to forget there are A LOT of rats in cartels too. There's a ton of snitching in that world, whether you're in the Mob, a drug cartel, a street/prison/biker gang or any other kind of organized crime group.
In that respect, the longevity of a Mafia crime family is astonishing. For instance the Gambino's have been around since the 1910's.
Compared to this, a cartel's demise is relatively fast. The Guadalajara cartel for instance lasted about 10 years, the Medellin and Cali cartels each about 20 years...plenty of other cartels stick around for a while longer, but with an extremely reduced power.
The Mob has been ingrained in pop culture, so it's tempting for people to have a bit of "schadenfreude" about the amount of rats the Mob has to deal with - but it doesn't hurt to realize that the same amount (maybe even moreso) of ratting is going on in any type of criminal organization.
The mob family was always orientated to bussiness so the bodies in the streets are dangerous for the bussiness while in the Cartels,murders is the rule,killing enemies,killing cops,killing everything so people prefer to flip and save his life,look at the film the counselour,a massacre only for what 300k dollars?
