For the people who are putting any credence in the chart: You would have to believe that there are that many active "soldiers" running around the city doing the mob's dirty work almost constantly without any of them having been arrested for anything for nearly 10 years.

That is an absolutely asinine proposition.

Also, another question for those who think the Outfit is not a very tiny fraction of what it once was. I asked Joe Fosco this once as well: If you don't have people like Harry Aleman running around murdering people left and right, how do you keep the bookies in check? Also, if the mob isn't murdering people--which it isn't--why would someone like, say, Sarno, continue to kick up to DiFronzio? When you read the history of the mob it is filled with murder upon murder for precisely those reasons: Bookies refusing to pay the street tax, people flipping and underlings who didn't respect their superiors.

In short, I don't see how the Outfit operates without violence.

Fosco's answer to the first question was that the customers keep gambling with the Outfit bookies because they are generally old and think someone like Angelo LaPietra is still around and is going to come after them. Also, as everyone knows, the Outfit reportedly cuts deadbeats off now. Thirdly, these people are also people who don't know how/have no interest in placing a bet on the Internet, which is obviously an older demographic.