I would trust BP comments on this. Gambling and loan sharking should probably be a focus area for wise guys today like they were back in the day with policy rackets as it’s new turf for them and lower / better profile

With drug dealing you shouldn’t be selling to people you don’t really know. Now if
Your boy knows some pepes then you go thru him and let him get his taste and deal with downside but wise guys aren’t in the power position like they were in the 70s / 80s so just trying to set up shop with street guys your just gonna get robbed or rolled on - just a shitty biz profile . Even dealing with your own you gonna get fucked over but at a lower rate to where it’s usually a cost of doing business and you can eat it but fucking with street gangs you loosely know , straight disaster down the road.

What’s a wise guy gonna do today if a blood set on Avon Ave NWK beats you on a kilo?, nothing . Having said that tho , I’m sure a bunch of guys got tight when locked up and do business when they are out like BP said . LCN aren’t nearly the volume wholesalers they were, which leaves them exposed