Yes, streetcrimes like robbing gas stations and selling dimebags are for streetgangs. Moving tons of cocaine and heroin is for cartels and organized crime. The local dry cleaner is a business. General Electric is a business. Are they the same? There could be tens of thousands of dry cleaners whose aggregate income is more than General Electric, but they are still not on the same level. One is a big, complicated and diverse organization and all those dry cleaners are simple businesses.

Larry Hoover was making $100 million per year? LMAO he must have a few billion by now? Where is all this money being made by these streetgangs? Is it reinvested in legit businesses? I'm not talking about a few bars or fast food joints. You talk about some black guy who made a bunch of money as if that's the average street punk. Most of them die broke still living with their mama or granny or in prison. A 30 year old gangster who can't afford to feed himself and depends on granny's EBT card to feed him. That's your average OG. If these guys are so smart and organized, they would at least have a house and car. That's hard to do when all they know is knocking over gas stations for $20 and shooting the clerk in the head.

The mafia is still involved in more sophisticated crimes, from stock scams to bid rigging. Where is the foresight of the streetgangs to diversify? They are more of a nuisance and plague to poor and middle class people by destroying neighborhoods through mindless violence and slinging crack and heroin. From the 1950's to now, the FBI has had a hard on for the mafia and still can't get them out of construction and garbage.

What does the decline of the mafia have to do with sophistication of crimes? That has more to do with integration of Italians and Jews into the mainstream.