The issue with modern gangs is that they mostly fail to establish monopoly of violence and hence are always in turf wars. The reasons for this are explained in a monologue by Mr Pink in Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.https://twitter.com/AlexanderMegas7/status/1402700483932864513 …
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If rightly managed, mafias allow inevitable consumption of vice to occur in ways that are least harmful to broader society. You‘re not going to end these appetites; you can at best outlaw them, & give guarded unofficial licenses to orderly providers, who reduce demand pressure.
I don‘t know the Tarantino explanation, but the Americans with ‚war on drugs‘ tried literally to end drug use; instead of managing and directing demand, installing a pressure release, they tried to just stop it up. Then they had to deal with pipes bursting everywhere.
