My guess is the Italian-American Mafia will still be at the top for a long time to come. But they won't have the complete monopoly position anymore : the Albanian mob is spreading, the Sovjet Jews are still strong, the Irish are still active, Mexican drug cartels are increasingly becoming widespread, Triads are very active, African-American/Dominican/Salvadoran/Vietnamese/Cambodian/Puerto Rican/Hmong/Haitian/Filipino/Native/Somali and Armenian gangs are becoming bigger and more organized, the Israelis and even the Yakuza ( under the Yoshitomi Group) are setting up base in the West Coast,...and let's not forget the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs or the White Supremacy gangs who some would deem as just a bunch of moonshining rednecks, but in reality they're just as organized and just as dangerous as their 'ethnic' counterparts.
So in short, the power of the Italian mafia will still be very high in the East Coast and (maybe) some parts of the Midwest, but they have been receiving a lot of competition lately.
those organizations might be bigger but groups like the triads and the yakuza are very traditional and they don't have as much influence as street gangs do on the west coast. Biker gangs are powerful but they deal with a certain group of people up in ncy biker gangs aren't competiton for the mob the mob is all about money the biker gangs are about bikes and money. Plus the mobs biggest money makers are illegal gambling loansharking and labor racketeering alot of the groups you mentioned have little to no part in these activities. other crime groups usually get along with the mob because of the mafias reputation and the mafia is intelligent as a whole. In reality the primary goal of the mafia is to make money and they still are able to do that with biker gangs and triads
Yeah it's true. Most other ethnic gangs, street gangs, prison gangs and outlaw motorcycle gangs make money off mainly the drug trade, weapon trade and extortion. The mafia doesn't really need to participate in the trafficking of drugs to make a lot of money.
It's also true that the American Mafia is smart, since they've been low-key for the past years, while other gangs and even Italy-based criminal organizations like Ndrangheta or Camorra seem much more aggressive.
