Crime Families Are Here To Stay

This discussion ignores one positive role of crime families. They employ psychopaths and keep them under control. Crime families hold their members and associates accountable for their errors and negligence unlike government agencies and institutions. Has the author considered the implications of easy access of union leaders, e.g., SEIU to the White House?

[From article]
"By the 1970s [. . .] Political institutions and the people who ran them were corrupted with organized-crime values. Law enforcement itself was infiltrated by mob associates.
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Layers of insulation that had existed for generations to protect corrupt politicians, law-enforcement officers, businessmen and mob leaders were penetrated by law enforcers.
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New leadership takes over and consolidates its power to control another generation of street thugs who fill in the ranks of the mob.
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the results [of stronger prosecutions] have been spotty.
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A glance at the headlines over the past several years shows that corruption continues to be a serious problem
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to keep organized crime from returning to its former position of power.
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The mob’s regenerative powers are remarkable.
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they are attracted to the centers of political power as a means of self-protection.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/mafia_is_like_chronic_disease_never_eB8faBP3FzhgvJbZ0ftXDM

Mafia is like a chronic disease, never cured
By EDWIN STIER
New York Post
Last Updated: 11:21 PM, January 22, 2011
Posted: 11:16 PM, January 22, 2011