@PB: one question, if the mafia of today cant kill their rats how is it possible that people can take them serious? i mean isnt murder the only way to keep order in a crime family?
That's why the American mob is in the shape it's in. But it's not like they can go back to killing people every day as a matter of "returning to their former glory." The Government would never allow it. The horse is already out of the barn. It will never be the same.
I think one problem is that there are no galvanising figures left that will try and implement anything new or cause a reaction of any kind. The days where the likes of gotti, casso and gal ante being the bosses are over. If they adopted the system that the street and prison gangs have where they 'green light' individuals and every one in the organisation is expected to assassinate the person or alert people who will on sight and then punish anyone who doesnt then maybe it will create an environment where people will just do it without being ordered to and also make it harder for informants.
