Crime in New York City Southern Italian emigration. Lucky Luciano established Cosa Nostra in Manhattan, forming alliances with other criminal enterprises, including the Jewish mob, led by Meyer Lansky, the leading Jewish gangster of that period. from 1920 to 1933, Prohibition helped create a thriving black market in liquor, upon which the Mafia was quick to capitalize. Since 1990, crime in Manhattan has plummeted in all categories tracked by the CompStat profile. A borough that saw 503 murders in 1990 has seen a drop of nearly 88% to 62 in 2008. Robbery and burglary are down by more than 80% during the period, and auto
Amy L. Lansky Amy L. Lansky Amy Linda Lansky (born 1955) is an American author, computer scientist, and homeopath, noted for having written "Impossible Cure: the Promise of Homeopathy". Lansky grew up in Buffalo, New York. She received a B.A. from University of Rochester in 1977 and a M.S. (1979) and Ph.D. (1983) in Computer Science from Stanford University. She is married to Steven M. Rubin; they have two children. In 1998, Lansky left the field of Computer Science to study homeopathy. Homeopathy is a pseudoscience and has not been shown to be effective in treating any disease This transition was prompted by