Word: bolita
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cities, such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, may have more difficulty combatting the numbers game ?or bolita or the policy racket?because its networks of runners are big employers in the ghettos and amount to major community industries. Notes Max Renner, a New York investigation commission special agent: "Even when the numbers in Harlem was operated by white mobsters, 90% of the take stayed there." Thus powerful politicians from poor urban constituencies have traditionally opposed serious attempts to drive the numbers out of business...