I still remember the senseless discussion I once had with some people (including 2 retired policemen) who genuinely admired Vic Amuso on a blog which is now gone. When I told them the life of crime is a shameful thing and Amuso can’t possibly be a honorable person since he is already a boss of a crime family (these 2 things contradict one another in my opinion), one of them said Amuso has more honor in his left butt cheek than I have in my whole body and, since I don’t know him personally and have never been to the USA, I have no right to judge him.
That's despicable. It just goes to show that a lot of cops (especially NYPD) are thugs at heart.
If I got what they said right, they think the other ethnic mafias (Hispanics, Russians, Albanians etc) have taken over most of the drug trade and that the street gangs are now more violent that the Italian-American mafia, they believe the Italian mafia is still being pressed by the FBI because arresting an Italian mafioso would make more headlines than arresting a member of another ethnic group. They think that, with the most charismatic mafia bosses gone, there is less order and more violence in the criminal world. By the way, is the situation described by them really like that?
Anyway, I think it’s extremely strange people with such views have chosen to work in the police. I could understand that (though not approve that, of course) if they were doing it for being paid by the mafia for passing them information, but one of them told me he can’t stand people like Eppolito and Caracappa because they dishonored the police. How is that compatible with their admiration towards Vic Amuso, I wonder.
