by stubbs » Sat Jan 26, 2019 3:52 pm
Also, consider that OC in Canada has been way behind the states. Montreal wasnt really founded until the 50s, so I’m sure it’s taken Canadian law enforcement a few decades to catch on how powerful the mob is up there. This shit is a secret, right? Not like the mob puts out a press release when they open a new branch in a new town. It takes people a while to realize how bad the problem is.
I mean, it took the US about 100 years after the mob came over from Italy to both make RICO a law and to actually figure out how to put it to use in the 80s. Only then did we really start seeing the huge busts and tons of guys flipping.
Same thing in Italy, it took their government forever to even acknowledge the mafia existed or to make membership in a family even a crime. This stuff didnt happen until Falcone and Borsellino in the 80s.
So I don’t think it’s that Canada’s laws are that much more lax, it’s more their policing hasnt caught up to, say, the FBI. I mean, the FBI has like multiple decades of hard core OC investigations under their belt now, but that took them forever to get off their asses and realize how to do multi-year complex invstigations. Like, Joe Pistone undercover for six years durng the seventies changed everything because nothing like that had ever been done before.
Canada will get there eventually, it just takes time.
Also, consider that OC in Canada has been way behind the states. Montreal wasnt really founded until the 50s, so I’m sure it’s taken Canadian law enforcement a few decades to catch on how powerful the mob is up there. This shit is a secret, right? Not like the mob puts out a press release when they open a new branch in a new town. It takes people a while to realize how bad the problem is.
I mean, it took the US about 100 years after the mob came over from Italy to both make RICO a law and to actually figure out how to put it to use in the 80s. Only then did we really start seeing the huge busts and tons of guys flipping.
Same thing in Italy, it took their government forever to even acknowledge the mafia existed or to make membership in a family even a crime. This stuff didnt happen until Falcone and Borsellino in the 80s.
So I don’t think it’s that Canada’s laws are that much more lax, it’s more their policing hasnt caught up to, say, the FBI. I mean, the FBI has like multiple decades of hard core OC investigations under their belt now, but that took them forever to get off their asses and realize how to do multi-year complex invstigations. Like, Joe Pistone undercover for six years durng the seventies changed everything because nothing like that had ever been done before.
Canada will get there eventually, it just takes time.