I was in Italy with the minister and other members of Parliament last spring. There we met with a number of the government agencies fighting organized crime. They advised us that they believe it was mostly by taking the wealth away from the family known as the Mafia that they basically destroyed them. Going along with that, the other groups of Cosa Nostra and some of the other families stepped in, but I didn't get any indication from the agencies that the level of violence had gone up in that country as a result of destroying the Mafia family, although others were competing to take over.
Is that an exception, or was I just not being given the information?