Sometimes you guys no nothing about what you are commenting on.

Even today Southie has large public housing projects where 90% of the people are on SS or disability, they drink and do drugs all day. While using their food stamp card for booze and drugs. The old people sell what ever prescriptions they can get to the likes of the WHG/Hogan Crew for redistribution.

Plus, everyone is looking to place a bet, borrow $100 until the 1st of the month or score a little rock etc. The WHG still to this day shakes down any one of the hundred of weed, coke, meth and H dealers roaming the streets in Southie. Dealers look at it as rent and keep their mouth shut.

Does the WHG actively whack people like Bulger and Flemmi did, no, that's bad for business. But Southie is still a place beatings are administered and people keep there mouth shut, it has been somewhat taken over by yuppies and modern neighborhoods but many parts are like they were 25 years ago.

How many areas do you know where you go out in the winter and shovel out your street parking place and when you leave for work you put a trash can r something there to hold it until you get home 8 hrs later...? heck, there's been shootings and beatings over a taken spot during the winter.

Now, I'm not saying the WHG or whatever they call themselves is 100 guys, but with a couple dozen guys locking down an area they can live a pretty good life and off the radar too.