Unfortunately, merely decapitating the mob will do nothing. In the event of the death, imprisonment or retirement of a don or two, one or more newbies will just muscle their way over the deceased's turf.
The DEA even tacitly admits this through its policy of measuring its effectiveness in terms of elevations in the cost of illegal drugs, but this crackdown will, if anything, decrease the price of criminal commodities and services through increased competition between organizations for a part of newly cleared territories. Of course the breakdown of these monopolies of crime may leave business owners paying protection to more than one enforcer in the confusion and dispute over territories.
Well, we could take the one step most effective against any economic organization: a boycott, in this case one against vice, drugs and gambling. Almost no economic organization can stand up to pressure like that.
Of course, though, in that case, the challenge is on us.
Just some thoughts....
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