Seems to me they exist like I've maintained all along. I think we tend to get caught up on what we know, and dismiss what we don't know. Just because we know this or that happened or happens in one city and we don't know that it happens somewhere else doesn't mean anything at all. Like NYMafia pointed out it's a secret society and the I'm sure the federal authorities spend more time on the larger families, therefore we hear more about them. Few people are enamored with the KC family outside of KC, but make a bust in Chicago, NYC Philly its national news. So resources are used more in those cities. That of course bodes well for the smaller families and not so well for us who want information on the smaller families. If my count is correct, now the so called experts on this site claimed previously Buffalo, dead, KC, dead, Detroit, dead! Those experts in my opinion are 0-3.