Thanks for the response Ivy.

So black gangs that are mostly involved in the drug trade would they be paying tribute to the local crew as most wiseguys were involved in narcotics dealing themselves?

I remember hearing Sewlyn Raab talk about Sonny Black's crew on a documentary. He said that Sonny was in charge of a crew that had approximately 15 soldiers and 25 associates. This struck me as an incredibly small soldier to associate ratio. Am I naive to think that when I first read that the average associate to soldier ratio was 10 to 1, and therefore there would be 100 associates to one crew?