beginnings of organized crime. Later on, the Italians were the most commonly associated group that took part in organized crime, followed by the Asians and Latinos. When the Italians first came to America they were treated as slaves and were put to work doing strenuous labor, as more and more came they started to inhabit Manhattan and started taking payments for protection, then the Irish came, and they were stuck with the undesirable jobs. The Irish and the Italians hated each other, this is still evident today, in the movie Gangs of New York, one of the biggest separations was the fire departments. Today the fire departments still carry some of the old traditions of being prominently Irish or Italian. But like every new ethnic group entering
