Move over, Sicily: Here comes Armenia, West Africa and Russia. Despite reality TV shows like Growing Up Gotti and Mob Wives, which have continued to immortalize the old-school Italian mob scene in and around New York, organized crime as America once knew it has gone the way of revolvers and Caddies. “It’s over for the Italians,” says Robert Lombardo, a criminology professor at Loyola University Chicago. Sure, the Big Five — Lucchese, Genovese, Gambino, Colombo and Bonanno — are still around, but their numbers have dwindled over the years to a fraction of what they once were. And with the decimation of traditional mafias, a whole new type of organized crime, both racially and tactically, has infiltrated the illicit landscape. “There’s been a restructuring,” Lombardo says.

They've been repeating that old mantra since the 1960's in some books I've read. Back in the 1960's they claimed the blacks would take over. Then it was the Cubans and Colombians in the 1980's. Then it was the Russians, Japanese, and Chinese in the 1990's. By the 2000's it was the OMC and Mexicans.

Nobody is going to take over. Each group has their niche. The only place where there might be interaction is drugs. Most of the time they will work together and not kill each other when it comes to ethnic groups, which is kind of strange. The Mexican cartels slaughter each other. The Mafia, Camorra, and Ndrangheta slaughter each other. Blacks gangs slaughter each other. Bikers slaughter each other. You hardly ever hear of BGD fighting the Mexican Cartels over drug routes or Latin Kings fighting the Pagans. The only time it somewhat came to blows was with the Mongols vs La Eme. Even then, the Mongols were mostly Latino by that time.