Eh I don't think that holds universally - and even when it does is an inversion of responsibility. A small mutual protection street gang maybe could work for with resources but one doesn't make a vicious gang like the Cartels nicer by joining them and trying to reform them from the inside.
Okay, it might not hold, that it's the best place to try to exert change, but it's undeniably a channel of interaction. Not exploiting it leads to less change.
