Anyone can kill anyone. Especially these days, as evidenced in the news. If someone owed an amount of money they couldn't pay back, and they felt their life was threatened, they'd be crazy not to go to the police. It would be their best move.
The police might not be able to do anything and second your not getting 24/7 protection for a gambling debt . Most likely you be killed and never see it coming
"most likely" i'd be killed? lol. Right. That would probably be the least likely outcome. It's not the 1950s. Police aren't on the take anymore, at least not with wiseguys. A dead body shows up now and the forensics team is on the scene. There are cameras on practically every public space now. "never see it coming". lol. Somebody watched Goodfellas on AMC yesterday.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
