The mob until the '80s, was feared and respected, for various reasons, unlike the street gangs were organized, managed to infiltrate everywhere started from the road to crimes (thefts, robberies, drug dealing, prostitution) to the white collar crimes, had its hierarchy and rigid rules, those who make mistakes pay, even with his life, those who make a lot of money, become a made man, can't be killed without permission of his family, and if this happens, there will be a war between the families. Vincent Gigant start as Genovese'driver and became a powerful boss of homonym family .But this is history, now could become men of honor only if you make a lot of money, for nepotism as Junior Gotti, or Joey D'Amico, the his mother paid $ 50,000 to a capo, for allow her to be made, many mafiosi go along until they are arrested and then flips.Men as Madonna who have 30 years for drug trafficking and not flip (he was a simple association, it could do), they are no longer now the mob is coming back to the beggining before luciano, the street gang.