How are organized crime syndicates formed?

Question

How are operations like the Crips, the Bloods, "the Mafia", etc get started and get so huge?

Answer 1

organized crime gets formed from ppl that cant get a regular job and in order to make money they dedicate them sels to extortion,murder for hire,and selling drugs...today the worlds most powerful crime organizations are the redmafia aka the russian mafia & the mexican cartels,the sinaloa cartel,the gulf cartel,the juarez cartel,& the tijuana cartel...the colombians were once the main players but they fell off...the mexicans distribute bolivian,peruvian,&colombian cocaine & mexicans also have super labs that produce crystal meth the most demanded drug today..mexicans also bring in peyote,heroin,marijuana,extasy & anything you can think of...it is said that al qaida has asked the mexicans cartels to smuggle in dirty bombs for them but the mexicans have refused many times because al qaida would be killing mexicos main customer!

Answer 2

A few very strong leaders, lot of very weak followers. Leaders bond with other strong leaders, and the followers just follow, and do what they are told.