[whimsicalism]

Organized crime exists in the US but has basically been destroyed at the higher-levels by RICO and intensive federal enforcement.

By contrast, there are parts of Italy where 75%+ of businesses are reported paying protection payments to organized crime.

[piva00]

The drug trade in the US is one of the most profitable in the world. Organised crime is behind it, there's no way that organised crime in the US has been destroyed at higher-levels, crime organisations still bring all the cocaine, MDMA, heroin and so on into the country, it's not small scale operations doing that.

[whimsicalism]

Fair enough, the cartels are modern American organized crime, but most of their operational bits are south of the border.

[toyg]

Yeah, after all everyone knows that prostitution rings, human trafficking, arm dealing, illegal lending, etc etc, they all run themselves. Time to disband all the dedicated police units then.