Oh yeah,one last question?
how did these small cali families start ,was their italian enclaves or neighborhoods?
i presume that these families were weak and did not control neighborhoods or charge protection from small business owners was being a gangster in cali as glamorous as it was on the east coast??? @Snakes
They were definitely weak and small compared to the families in the Northeast and Midwest where there were more Italians and the LCN had a much larger presence. Well, the chart below does show the LA family having around 70 members back around the 1960's but I have a hard time believing all of them were actually made. Anyway, they were involved in many of the same street rackets other families were. And members had interests in various legitimate or quasi-legitimate businesses. Even though the feds still listed them as late as 1988, the San Francisco and San Jose families were, for all intents and purposes, finished by the early 1980's. A much smaller and weakened (compared to the past) LA family lasted into the 1990's but was basically finished off with "Operation Thin Crust."
