I hear what you are saying but they were protecting their criminal interests to rob steal and kill the people in their neighborhood rather then protecting the people so I have to disagree with you on that point

Wise guys are no more honorable than black gangsters ( and IMO will fuck over their friends more then black gangsters ) they just have a better pitch to the public that they are but it’s all BS . They are also better at making $ too which is why they are still around.

Actually today’s inner cities are far more safer then the 80s / 90s/ early 2000s

A lot of progress has been made , even if people won’t acknowledge it but that’s kind of how the brain works, remember the good , forget the bad. Shit was way more Fd up in 90s then today