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Cops make the deadliest Mafia hit men

By David Amuroso

Cops and mobsters will never be the best of friends. But every wiseguy trusts that if he surrenders to the law he will not be murdered. Ironically, it’s that belief that got a bunch of gangsters killed. Not by the cops, but by their underworld rivals who abused the trust all members of society, including criminals, place in the badge and the uniform by playing dress-up as they went hunting for their enemies.

When a police officer yells “Freeze!” a suspect knows that he can stop moving without being shot. Though if he continues to run his chances of being shot increase significantly. But imagine a famous serial killer standing a hundred feet from you, yelling at you to “Stop moving!” Would you stop? Or would you run like hell? Preferably to the nearest police station?

The same rules apply within the underworld. When a cop tells a gangster to “Freeze!” they will usually do so. Unless they are in the middle of a drug deal or bank robbery of course. Running from the law is part of their profession. But if they are just walking on the street and a cop tells them to stop, they will have no problem with that.

Yet when one of their rivals tells them to do the same their mind will start racing. “What does this guy want? Why is he telling me to stop? Is he packing?” If there is a gang war going on, he will not even think, he will just start running to safety or pull out his gun and start blasting. If your enemy tells you to stop it won’t be so he can kiss you on the cheek. It’s more likely he needs you to stand still so he has a clear target from afar or can get close enough to stab you through your heart.

Gangsters Inc. dug up four examples of mobsters using the badge to whack their enemies.

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Comment by Dale .L. Porter on June 17, 2014 at 9:58pm

Not for nothing,but on the Capone article you forget Vincent "Schemer" Drucci took over The North Siders after Hymie Weiss was killed until Drucci died in,I believe,1927,trying to take away a police detective's gun in an altercation following an arrest.Also look-outs clocking the arrival of The North Siders at the SMC Cartage Warehouse mistook Albert Weinshank for Moran as they looked alike from a distance.Much speculation that Capone actually approved of the massacre beforehand and who exactly were the triggermen (most agree imports like Fred "Killer" Burke late of Egan's Rats for one),although Jack McGurn,Scalise and Anselmi (The Murder Twins),and even Joe Batters (Tony Accardo) popped up.My guess is they were imported as The North Siders were all too familiar with Capone's men hence "The American Boys" tie-in.Guess we'll never know although the two Tommies used in the massacre are still around today in working order and in police impound still.What a showpiece one of them would make!.



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