The street gangs are involved onlybin blue collar crime like drug dealing,murdets,prostitution ecc the members are very young often underage so they can used to murder rival gang nembers without the risk of being tried as an adults,the gang members are ready to spend very long periods of their lives in prisons.
The mob are organizated with a clear hierarchy,are preferred white collar criminals aside blue collar mobsters. The objective is to enjoy the money and avoid prison when is possible. The mob control unions and high level scam.
The bosses are very old because have the experience to run a family while in a street gang the bossesare young because the veterans are dead or in prison.
Take this from another DIA report about the Barcellona family. Notice how they mainly are drug dealers, but considered no less " Mafia" than the agriculturally based Batanesi gangs who manage to corrupt government farming subsidies.
The people of Barcelona and drugs: “at home” or on “social networks”
In the “Tyrrhenian belt” of the province, where the family of the “Barcelona” is considered hegemonic, the main business for the criminal organizations would be drug trafficking. In the second half of 2021, the “Drug Express” investigation made it possible to dismantle a criminal group headed by a Tunisian based in Milazzo but with ramifications also in Rome dedicated to managing the trafficking and dealing of cocaine and crack. A peculiarity of the illicit activity was the home delivery of the narcotic substance. The supply also took place through a Roman canal that transferred the drug to the people of Messina through the shipping system. The investigation confirming the criminal status of the association also revealed the existence of a criminal project aimed at carrying out an attack against the barracks and vehicles of the Guardia di Finanza of Milazzo and even to plan a revenge against a soldier who had subjected some of the suspects to a roadside check “. And, again, the “Lock Drugs” investigation, concluded by the Carabinieri on 22 July 2021, instead “concerned a thriving business of dealing in marijuana and cocaine in the Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto area carried out by very young subjects through the use of social networks, deemed less vulnerable in terms of investigative monitoring “.
Now, all this kinda sounds a little like the silly street gangs we were JUST criticizing in the Rizzuto thread, right? Even with the silly kids on social media. But this is a Mafia according to Italian LE. It's about the nature of interactions with the institutions and the populace more than any particular criminal activity.
