Is organized crime dead in Detroit?

[terryh]

I collect Detroit Scope magazines from the sixties area and it seems the Combination, or Partnership, as the Detroit mob family is called, was still very active in the city at that time.extorting money and running-extorting illegal gambling I know as late as early nineties there were mob run gambling establishments raided, one being the former Tiger Club on Schaefer several blocks of 8 Mile, and a Race betting slip company on Gratiot just south of 8 Mile.Based on newspaper articles, sports betting with bookmakers [[bookies) is a mob contolled racket, with bookies paying a street tax to mobsters. There was a Michigan to Vegas bookmaking network that was busted back in early nineties, the newspaper article naming an aging Jewish bookie who had been associated with the Purple Gang. This is a fascinating subject!

[Fury13]

...it seems the Combination, or Partnership, as the Detroit mob family is called, was still very active in the city at that time.extorting money and running-extorting illegal gambling...

It's still active and powerful in this area. Detroit's mob is one of a handful of healthy Italian mob organizations in America. This area's mob has also been very successful at not attracting undue publicity. The arrests in 1996 drove the local mob further under the radar... but those guys are out there, believe me.