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My guess is that in a "professional" organized crime family if you have to whack someone it means someone (possibly yourself) screwed something up very badly. K
by api 11y ago
My guess is that in a "professional" organized crime family if you have to whack someone it means someone (possibly yourself) screwed something up very badly. Killing someone is extremely high risk and is probably regarded as sloppy operations.
It sort of mirrors the way governments have gotten more advanced with repressive and tyrannical techniques. Unsophisticated governments will whack people or arrest them and throw them in bottomless pit prisons, etc. Sophisticated totalitarian regimes use nudge theory and very advanced astroturf type propaganda, and when they have to 'whack' someone they discredit them and assassinate their character and credibility rather than martyring them with a physical attack. Much cleaner, more efficient, and in the end far more effective.
- davidw 11y ago> My guess is that in a "professional" organized crime family if you have to whack someone it means someone (possibly yourself) screwed something up very badly. Maybe, maybe not - a lot of those groups operate via intimidation, and there's nothing like a gruesome murder to underline that.
- noir_lord 11y agoYes but one messy and brutal murder is more efficient than a bunch where the body disappears and no-one ever hears about it. The line is of course somewhere between "maximum intimidation" and "might annoy enough people to have the police actually do something" I guess.
- SixSigma 11y agoAnd when they do kill you, they call it suicide : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_%28weapons_expert%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_%28weapons_expert%... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams