All it takes is for the guy who calls the shots to say " you know what, I feel street gangs, and drug dealing is the biggest threat to the public so I am going to allocate the majority of our resources to fight that element" and immediately you have a recipe for less indictments involving the mob. Combine that with Tocco education and political connections and that could very well explain the lack of mob indictments for the Detroit LCN family. Of course the other explanation could be they are in fact dormant or extinct. The point is lack of indictments does not in any way mean lack of crime. By that same logic Tony Accardo and Carlo Gambino must have been less involved and lower in rank that Rusty Rastelli because Accardo and Gambino never spent a day in jail, whereas Rastelli was indicted numerous times and spent half his adult life in the can. As a matter of fact, Gambino must have been a law abiding citizen who was unfairly stereotyped for his Italian heritage because if he really was a godfather surely he would have been indicted more and done some time.


I'm no expert on crime but I don't think Milwaukee compares to Detroit in terms of gangs and violence.

Furthermore there were mob related indictment as recently as 2006 and Detroit still has a relativity tight nit Italian community and a little Italy, unlike Milwaukee.