rs were expressed. The increase of murders of low ranking, average citizens were becoming more and more common. With most of the police on the “take”, there were a lot fewer arrest and those criminals who were arrested usually got off on all their charges, depending on whom they knew or whom they worked for. Most of the mob bosses were so ruthless that they would bully honest, hard working merchants into paying, so called “protection money”, to the under lords in their block or that ran the racket they worked in. If these simple shop workers refused to pay them their protection money sometimes they would rough up their employees, destroy their stores, and often hospitalize the shop keepers themselves. Large corporations were not safe either. They were also affected. These racketeers would push around the large businesses promoters, organizers, and even the strong labor unions.Today the story is not so well known. It’s not as bad today because people have more trust in the police to protect them. The mobsters tend to leave normal average people alone because they really have no business with them and they don’t want to take the risk of getting caught by show boating their names and powers. The racketeers of today are not as publicly known even thought they still have many different holds on large corporations and large parts of the cities. Also the law is more forceful today than eighty years ago against organized crime. Today you wont find many crooked authority officials that you could just pay off to get yourself out of trouble. Not to say that these payoffs don’t still occur today they are just kept quiet and people have learned many ways to not get caught. There are still many illegal casinos, prostitution rings, and racketeering run by these large secret society’s., but drugs are still probably the number one money making business for organized crime units in the United S...
