The five families are getting smashed by indictment after indictment and rat after rat.
The standup guys still outnumber the rats in droves.
Not only that but some here will recall the predictions made by prosecutors and the FBI back in the 1990's about them wiping out the mob in "5 or 10 years." Well, that was 20 years ago and the 5 NY families are still there despite an ongoing wave of indictments. Nowadays, you don't hear those same predictions anymore.
From a purely law enforcement approach, the NY Mafia is virtually indestructible. Prosecutions and rats weaken the families and move the process along but it is slow attrition over a long period of time that will finally see the end.
