>>22553692 (lb/pb)
>In Chicago, that didn't happen until Big Bill HIRED the Irish gangs to be the cops, back near ~1913. (That's where the Daley Family power base started). Well before that, the "wagons" were literally wagons and the Irish were loathed. Other cities did much the same thing, hired one gang to lord over the others.
You just described the essence of "Government".