True. The cartels are constantly changing, like the hydra you cut off one head and several grow back to replace it. But you know whats gonna be aroung long after the Genovese, Gambino's etc. are long gone? Drug traffic. And there's always gonna be those traffickers movng ther product.

Even as considered an actual OC threat, which organization is most likely to affect the daily life of a US citizen? Even in to NY, to a degree, the cartels as whole are a far bigger threat to the people then the odd handful of LCN cells and families left around the country. Sure there are bookmaking operations and certain rackets that made them millionaires. The cartels are billionaires.

America has all the people, so of course America gets all the drugs...but these cartels are actually transnational in many cases. They sell their cocaine and exchange in other drugs around the world, and groups like the Ndranhgeta and Camorra use the profits some selling said drugs to invest in business, construction and public work bids that make them so formindable today.

The LCN still do that, just on a much smaller scale. And only with the the States, and even then mostly NY.

Go back to the 50's and 60's maybe, before RICO...maybe different.