If you we're plotting frequency of mob related deaths from the 70s or 80s to today on a chart I would imagine the chart would look something like the Grand Canyon in terms of fall off.
Yeah, the drastic dropoff seems to have happened starting around 1990. Hits have been very sporadic since then.
Many claim that this reduction in hits is due to the family trying to keep a low profile, and that may be part of it, but I suspect the most important factor is so many of the really brutal, quick-to-kill gangsters in Chicago being jailed or dying of natural causes starting in the late 80s.
