These kind of questions pop up every few months, but at the end of the day these questions are pointless. An Italian-American mobster has zero interest in going to war with a Black American gang member over drug turf in Camden or with a Mexican cartel emissary over some smuggling route in the Rio Grande Valley...or vice versa for that matter.

Seems like some people on the internet think that just because the American Mafia is (admittedly) a far cry from their glory days or just because they're not whacking people left or right it immediately means they should be considered a "laughing stock". Well...they're still around, they still have a recruitment pool - God knows why or how they still have one but somehow they still do - and they're still making plenty of money. Say what you will, but as far as organized crime goes they're generally speaking remarkably well organized and they're quick to adapt to a changing landscape. There are plenty of other high profile OC groups, but if you take the drug business away most of them will collapse.

The FBI still sees the American Mafia as a high priority issue in the NY/NJ area - their traditional power base. And if you believe otherwise...feel free to take a trip down to let's say some mobbed-up Staten Island neighborhood, find a local mob guy, take a loan of him and tell him to go fuck himself. I'm willing to bet you're gonna have a serious problem, RICO be damned.