They're not on the same level as New England. In my opinion, while Detroit could be argued to be on that line between "viable" and "non viable," Buffalo is the first one on the non viable side. And Kansas City would be after Buffalo. Them having a couple dozen members is due to them being in the northeast as much as anything. There's been very little activity in recent years. Mostly involving individual guys here or there and not really anything resembling a cohesive family. Much of what is thought about the current hierarchy of the family, whatever is left of it anyway, is speculation.
nobody could know exactly is a family is viable or not, your only sources are the indictments but they are not enough it depends on the place...
according to your logic the mafia in the 60s was weaker than today because the lack of indictments of that time?
there are several factors, the indcitments and you're right, but you have to consider other factors like the level of corruption of a specific area
if buffalo is more corrupt than detroit for example you get a lack of the ones in buffalo
