and if the cop dared he would have been whacked end of
And then whoever whacked the cop would be whacked by fellow cops. And then those cops would be whacked by the mafia. And then another payback by the cops. And so on.
But I think in open war the cops would have won. The mafia survives because they don't go to open war against law enforcement. In Sicily they tried, got their butt kicked and changed strategy. Don't think in America they could scare the cops with purely military/terroristic tactics. The only such attempt was by Rosario Borgio in Akron in the beginning of the century and ended with the electric chair.
