I don’t think it’d be surprising that a criminal organization would at times and probably more times than any of us would possibly know, take the extreme action of killing regular, normal, civilians. For many years a major part of the business was shaking down innocent, regular business owners. Committing robberies and burglaries of business owners and others.

I can only imagine the number of innocent people caught in killings back in the 20s, 30s, 40s, etc. The news articles of violence back then read similar to the mayhem one reads about happening today in parts of the Bronx (Tremont, Hunts Point, University and Morris Heights) and other parts of city seeing plague of gang violence and shoot outs in the streets.