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This reminds me of back in the 1980's when the government was knee deep in breaking up the mafia.

Several academics suggested it was a bad idea because the Mafia kept a lot of the other gangs and cartels in line since they ruled so much territory. By dismantling the larger mafia families, they were unknowingly giving free reign to a lot of the smaller street gangs who openly advocated violence and couldn't handle all the power they were being given.



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