112 made guys is enormous compared to any of the families outside New York, even if half are jailed/inactive. Factor in 5-15 associates for each made guy and you've got a veritable army of gangsters on your hands. They're going to be around for quite a while longer.
Exactly. While I personally don't put a whole lot of stock in associate estimates, if we include the associate estimate for the Colombo family from the same 2004 report, it cited 112 total members and 500 associates. Or total manpower of over 600.
Compare that with New England and Philadelphia, who each have maybe 50 total members and 100 associates, or Chicago, with perhaps 30 members and a little over 100 associates. The Colombos are still 4 times the size of the remaining families outside NY.
