How has the new york mafia changed over the last 25 years ?
The Mafia has lessened its activities demonstrably so, because it has had to, largely on two counts: (1) — its beginnings are like those of many emigres’ stories in America. Each culture of emigres has had its peculiar way of melding into the fabric that is America to “get ahead” and to more than simply survive but as well devise some way to prosper: some methods have been amenable and complimentary to America; some not so… The Mafia’s habit diminished because of America’s heightened intelligence [information gathering and means of interdiction], which the Mafia no longer had the wiles to approximate, lest more and more would find themselves clapped into penitentiaries or killed as was proved over the past 25 years or deceived by those within the Mafia. In other words, the arm of the law had become so very adept with the advent of pressures put down by electronic innovations and securities surveillance that to “get over” could no longer be made possible or effective. (2) There is a
