The real gangsters are the ones who never make the news media,never go to prison who seem to have legitmate jobs , also those who run banks,some politicians , and arms companies are the biggest gangsters of them all ,the ones you hear about aren't all that , the british had the krays perhaps the most well known gangsters in this country ,who were made out to be super tough guys but also super intelligent who loved their mum, kept the streets safe of all the scum who would beat up old ladies and you were never bothered by them if you didn't cross their path. Load of bullshyt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kray_twins
The reality was they were homosexuals, they used to pimp out young boys runaways,boys from childrens homes for male politicians and lords hence why a blind eye was turned to their other activities for so long. They were also bullies, in their small little kingdom and say you ran a business if you didn't pay their 'protection' they would seriously hurt you . They were told to stay out of the north of england and scotland by much harder men or else and they did what they were told so they could keep their own little kingdom down in london. They never left the skirts of their mother who they worshipped and were altogether a bit pathetic. In the end ,they either got too big for their boots, or were blackmailing the paedos who they supplied with underage boys, and they were taken out by the real gangsters ,they got life long prison sentences and never released.
A more better run outfit was the richardson family who were rivals to the krays, who had a bit more about them,thought further than the east end of london . Got into mining in south africa, did some shady stuff for the british and south african government. They were very brutal men, who employed a torturer called 'mad frankie', who's techniques involved buying a bottle of tomato ketchup, taking a shyt on the floor and saying either eat this shyt or you will be tortured more {he used to remove teeth with pliers ,electrocution, ,nail hands and heads to the floor}, and would say you could use as much ketchup as you wanted then hand the broken man the ketchup.He then was given all the time he needed to eat the shyt on the floor. After he was washed up and given a clean shirt and driven home.
The richardsons also were taken out in the end, although they were allowed out, of prison after a few decades, probably because they didn't dirty their hands with underage boys and high profile paedos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Richardson_Gang