It is like taking away a unions right to strike. Without that power, the rest is small potatoes.
Most police unions aren't allowed to strike. Their leverage is their political war chest. Candidates that cross them get buried with negative ads. Money is the ultimate leveraging tool, and maybe this applies to the mob, as well.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
