I've said before, I'll say it again. Despite how racist mobsters are, I'd bet that they respect black and Latino gangsters more than they do their own white groupies from their neighborhoods, or cops. Cops love to pretend there's a mutual respect between them and the wiseguys, but there's not. It's a one way street. They admire the wiseguys, the wiseguys can't stand them.
"...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
