Editing Protection racket (section)

==Examples==
*[[Danegeld]] was a protection tax paid by [[Christendom]] to stop [[Viking raids]].
*During the late medieval and early modern era in the [[Scottish Marches]], local farmers would often need to make payments to the [[Border Reivers]] as a form of protection money to ensure they were not attacked. These agreements were called "Black mal", where "mal" was an [[Old Norse]] word meaning agreement. The word [[blackmail]] entered the English language in 1530 as a result, but the word's meaning has changed since.<ref>{{cite web |title=Etymology of blackmail |author=Barbara Mikkelson |work=[[Snopes]] |date=April 16, 2012 |url=http://www.snopes.com/language/colors/blackmail.asp|access-date=April 23, 2012}}</ref>
*Many early Islamic empires levied a [[Jizya|tax]] upon non-Muslims in return for protection and an exemption from compulsory military service. There is no record of the tax being imposed by a nation after the late 1800s.
*In Melbourne, Australia, [[Alphonse Gangitano]] ran a protection racket along the famous Lygon Street during the 1990s.
*In [[Sicily]], Italy, officials say that 80% of businesses in the city of [[Palermo]] pay ''[[Pizzo (extortion)|pizzo]]'', or protection money, to the [[Sicilian Mafia]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Couple plans 'mafia-free' wedding |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7976554.stm |publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=1 April 2009|access-date=11 February 2015}}</ref>
*In [[Ciudad Juárez]], Mexico, when the [[Mexican Drug War]] escalated in 2008, criminal groups like the [[Juárez Cartel]] saw their financial backbone threatened and began asking for protection money from businesses ranging from convenience stores to clubs and restaurants with the threat of burning down the business or shooting everyone inside with machine guns.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=13a374065b1435a01b95e081f35cb455|publisher=El Diario de Juarez|date=2009-08-10|title=Suben 57% denuncias por extorsiones|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814114626/http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=13a374065b1435a01b95e081f35cb455 |archive-date=2009-08-14|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*In the early history of [[post-Soviet Russia]], law enforcement was too underfunded and poorly trained to protect businesses and enforce contracts. Most businesses had to join a protection racket (known as a ''krysha'', the Russian word for "roof") run by local gangsters.<ref>The Washington Post [http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/63/067.html Banditry Threatens the New Russia] 2 May 1997</ref><ref>Misha Glenny (2008). ''McMafia''. Vintage. {{ISBN|978-0-09-948125-6}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title=GODFATHER OF THE KREMLIN: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia. - Review - book review |author=Andrew Cockburn |journal=[[Washington Monthly]] |date=October 2000 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_10_32/ai_66495297/}}</ref>
*In the [[United Kingdom]] in the 1950s and 60s the [[Kray twins]] ran protection rackets in the [[East End of London]].<ref>Metropolitan Police Service - [http://www.met.police.uk/history/krays.htm The Kray twins - jailed in 1969] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130223114637/http://www.met.police.uk/history/krays.htm |date=2013-02-23 }}</ref>
*[[Chauth]], demanded by [[Sambhaji]] and [[Peshva]] Brahmins during [[Mahratta Invasions of Bengal]] and [[Mahratta Sackings of Goa and Bombay-Bassein]].