Several factors can go into that. Size. Wealth. Diversity of operations. Geographic scope. Stability. Longetivity. Etc.
Is it better to have 20 made guys and clear $200 Million, or have 200 made guys and clear 200 million, after incarcerations, trials, hits and general ass aches associated with 150 of your 200 guys having their head up their asses, ie, doing stupid shite and screwing each other over?
Except Detroit isn't making anywhere near the money the NY families are.
And, for all this talk about the NY guys being stupid and what not, the crazy Colombos (because of their size alone) will be around long after Detroit is just a memory.
2. Detroit is very low profile.
Easy to do when you're on your last legs.
3. FBI is balls deep in terrorism cases. They still hit LCN hard in NYC because NYC LCN is high profile and can get more out of control than other places. IMO. So, LCN is not even on the radar outside of NYC and CHI. Heck, OC is barely on the radar.
The terrorism excuse has already been tried. And failed. Even the FBI's NY mob squads have been continually reduced since 9/11. But we still see plenty of mob cases.
But even if you want to make NY the exception, we've still seen plenty of cases in New England, Philadelphia, and Chicago as well. So, this claim that Detroit is just different doesn't hold water.
4. Detroit LCN is very educated. They know what they are doing and don't waste time, energy, resources screwing each other over. The benefit of being smaller is plenty to go around. Less jealousy.
The "Detroit is smarter" argument has also been tried. And failed. There's really no evidence for that.
5. Just because not alot of prosecutions does not mean lack of activity. Just not a focus of FBI outside of NYC and CHI.
That's exactly what it means. Especially over the long term. It's not a coincidence that most mob cases are found in NY and none in Dallas.
7. Somebody is selling dope wholesale to the street dealers, or at a min, financing the dope wholesalers.
Yeah, the Mexican DTO's.
I think Detroit is small in numbers, but could be the most profiable, per member, than any other family. They may have they best business model going.
What are you basing this on?
