Someone is nurturing them
We have some serious social problems here in my country. It seems that we are all doomed from up the head of the country to the root of the citizen, because most of them have the royal mentality and want to be treated well, want to have money without having to work, all the have to do is to be the head od a social organization which somehow is legal, but in fact, what they do is purely criminal. It is just like the local version of Yakuza, but mostly are just a lowlife bastard and crooks.
And they are not just one, there are many of these kinds of social organizations which somehow could have a close tie to the politician or the head of the bureaucrat. They all are doing illegal things, like asking for some safety money, illegal parking valet that is scattered all over the country, especially in the city where there are small businesses doing their business. Somehow they can kill those business, as most of the customer will likely will avoid to do business or be a customer if they find this illegal parking valet in operation.
Well they will still have a close tie from one other, until some of those organization collide because they won't share the territory for the to operate. You can guss what happen, they attack one another just like the stupid gangs are doing.
we all know how bad they are, but can't make them stop their operation as they I mention that they have a close relation to those bad politician who nurture them, which they will used went he election time come.