[Joe]

There's random crime victims, victims of mistaken identity, victims of bad luck, but not too many victims of organized crime. The organized crime the Irish and Italian run, don't engage in killing for no reason. They don't kill randomly, they don't do drive-by shootings. They don't have members "make their bones" by killing any white person they can find like the Crips.

People choose to get involved in that life - with the exception of top-tier crime families, who are born into it. No one forces you to become a degenerate gambler. If you're a criminal operating in their territory, you're expected to pay a tribute as part of doing business and to be sharp enough not to rob people who are paying for protection. Unfortunately, a lot criminals are stupid, and they end up dead over it.