Sailors felt protected by mafia landlords from ordinary crime

Evidence

Once she asked some sailors if they felt safe living off base. “No,” one told her, “but our landlords are mafia, or Camorra, so we feel safe because they wouldn’t let anybody do any damage to us … Nobody would ever dare enter into my house to steal something or scratch my cars because they know that my landlord is mafia.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 359

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels accounts where people in weak legal states feel safer relying on criminal protection than on the formal legal system; connects to extralegal governance literature read before.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 359