Comment Comment by baldfat The only thing that makes me hesitate this popular view:1) There was a mafia in Italy and US long before Prohibition and after Prohibition2) The violence and deaths of police officers in the US started to rise in 1900 and peaked at 1921 and declined for another 30 years.3) Doesn't explain the statistical violence peaks of the 1970s and 1980s in our society.4) We are at one of the least violent and peaceful decades in US History[1] Police deaths in London and NYC (I could use other markers just this was a lazy first choice http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2586786/ [2] US Crime Rate (Which I would argue is flawed since the recording of crimes prior to 1960s was not tracked in the same way as records are now kept after JFK assassination http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0109/US-crime-rate... parent baldfat 11 years ago
1) There was a mafia in Italy and US long before Prohibition and after Prohibition
2) The violence and deaths of police officers in the US started to rise in 1900 and peaked at 1921 and declined for another 30 years.
3) Doesn't explain the statistical violence peaks of the 1970s and 1980s in our society.
4) We are at one of the least violent and peaceful decades in US History
[1] Police deaths in London and NYC (I could use other markers just this was a lazy first choice http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2586786/ [2] US Crime Rate (Which I would argue is flawed since the recording of crimes prior to 1960s was not tracked in the same way as records are now kept after JFK assassination http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0109/US-crime-rate...