Well i’m from montreal and I lived in neighborhood were street gangs are mostly active. And it always been like that. Many time i read things on the news about the gangs, and every people from the neighborhood or the haitian community knows that what is on the new is bullshit or sometime right but not 100%.

So i think the same thing could be said about the mafia and the criminal world in the italian community. Many italians or people near the italian community knows more than the media. And its like that in every country.
But also, the media is not 100% bullshit… its hard to really know what is really happening, since its the underwold.