So it would be better having your clan having your back then... and it would be ok to be tossing them a few greenbacks monthly to have it so? From what you said that sounds like the case...
That doesn't go on anymore or does it?
Nope. The FBI goes after italian gangsters like no tommorow because it makes for good tv and press and leaves the real criminals alone since they shoot back and will fight back.
But in the end, the nabe suffers worst. Its sort of like taking afew predators out of a area in favor of others. It creates a power vacuum and the predators left over consolidate power and things get way worse.
The albanians, russians, dominicans, jamaicans, and other groups are far worse and far more violent than the italians ever could be.