I agree with eveything that has already been said. Bottom line is that the "mob" does criminal acts, and uses murder as way of doing business. What has given them some credence is that, and this basically applys to the "old mob", is that they usually kept the violence among themselves. Usually their activies were enjoyed by average people,such as "hitting the number". I know Las Vegas was more fun when the mob controlled it, before big business came in.