So the answer is, they do find enough new recruits for replacement.
Try making that statement in twenty or thirty years. By which time virtually every "Italian American" will be fifth, sixth and seventh generation, born and raised in the suburbs to upper middle class parents.
You have to grow up dirt poor in a tough neighborhood to become a true gangster. There have certainly been a few exceptions over the years. But they're few and far between.
That is essentially what I was trying to get at.
PB, do you think the decline in murders is more than just a moratorium? Could it have to do with better upbringing for the younger guys?
