Editing Mafia (section)

===Protection territories===
A protection racketeer cannot tolerate competition within his sphere of influence from another racketeer. If a dispute erupted between two clients protected by rival racketeers, the two racketeers would have to fight each other to win the dispute for their respective client. The outcomes of such fights can be unpredictable (not to mention bloody), and neither racketeer could guarantee a victory for his client. This would make their protection unreliable and of little value. Their clients might dismiss them and settle the dispute by other means, and their reputations would suffer. To prevent this, mafia clans negotiate territories in which they can monopolize the use of violence in settling disputes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gambetta68-71_140-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#cite_note-gambetta68-71-140 [140]]</sup> This is not always done peacefully, and disputes over protection territories are at the root of most Mafia wars.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-141">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#cite_note-141 [141]]</sup>