Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't most bookmaking and loansharking busts intertwined with extortion and threats of physical violence or worse?
And what of the knock-on effect the sale of drugs has in terms of urban crime?
Aces, you mentioned in a previous post how Merlino commissioned the sale of guns!
They consider words violence, which are usually empty threats. As I said no one forced to make a loan or put a bet in. To compare that to a young lady minding her business going for a jog and get brutally raped and murder is stupid. It's like comparing someone getting caught with weed to BTK.
