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Banning alcohol would be one of the defining characteristics of the “Roaring 20s”.

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In 1919, the 18th Amendment was passed. This prohibited  “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours”. In simple terms, no one could buy alcohol legally anymore.

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Many people wanted to ban alcohol for different reasons.

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- There was a widespread belief, from religious organizations, that alcohol caused corruption and violence in people. Organizations such as the Woman’s Temperance Union were heavy advocates for Prohibition alongside factory owners and business leaders who believed alcohol would decrease the performance of their workers.

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Speakeasies became a very popular way to keep drinking alcohol.

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Because of the restrictions on alcohol, hidden clubs called “speakeasies” rose to popularity. They would often have secret entrances, and one needed to know a “passcode” in order to get in. People used speakeasies as a way to get a drink even when it was illegal.

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Hauling Illegal Liquor | National Geographic

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The rum runners were the people who hauled illegal alcohol over longer distances. They would bring alcohol from overseas then haul it to the cities. This job was highly risky, since a rum runner often had to deal with police  chasing them. These rum runners would  be the inspiration for what is now modern car racing (like NASCAR).

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Hauling Illegal Liquor | National Geographic

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When alcohol needed to be transported, people came up with creative ways to sneakily get alcohol from one place to another. These people, called “bootleggers”, were responsible for this. They often worked with criminal organizations to bring the alcohol to them.

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Before they where just regular thugs and gangs which where Jewish, Irish, polish, and Italians.

Before it wasn’t in reality the mob bosses that ran everything but the corrupt politicians.

The gangs were thugs in the employ of the political machines to  intimidate opposition candidates and funneling votes to the boss/politicians. In return the politicians and police chiefs would turn a blind eye to illegal gambling and prostitution rings because of that favor that they did for them.

When the provision happened in 1920 the only people that where there to be able to help the people that anted the beer where the mobsters because they where the only ones that where equipped with the things that they needed.

The thing that they used to have a successful bootlegging operation was a paramilitary organization. For example at the beginning the street gangs didn’t know a thing about business, but they knew how to use a gun properly and how to intimidate others to be able to protect illegal breweries and rum-running operations from other rival gangs.

They provide security for speakeasies and payed off any nosey cops or politicians to look the other way and not bother them.

Since they started to get so much money they had to hire lawyers and accountants to launder the millions in selling the alcohol. They had to start thinking about strategic partnerships with other gangs in order to work more effectively.

Thay had to become businessman and what we call now organized crime.

That started to talk to other mod bosses in a organized fashion and at that time this was uncommon because they use to settle things with a shootout.

They talked about peace and if they had peace with there own people they will have peace with there’s.

Before they where just gangs but they had to learn how to be organized and get away with  things by using the law. There for they became none as organized crime.

Some mob bosses had there money transferred to casinos since it was legalized in 1931 and covered there tracks because then they had it transferred to reinvest into legitimate companies. That is the reason Al Capone was caught, because he did not do this.

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At a the young age of 29 he became director of the cops where he worked at, and made strict codes in the offices where they had to get the area inspected and cleaned.

He also invented codes so that when they hired some one they had to meet that criteria in order to be accepted.

This was the first cop that integrated the identification division in order to use fingerprints to identify people faster and not confuse them with others.

At the beginning in 1936 they had a little over 100,000 fingerprint cards, then in 1946 they had over 100 million cards that help all over the country in order to help determine who was who.

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Some people think that having the provision was the worst decision that they ever made because with this the mob bosses  became more powerful and smart and it really didn’t help in anything

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By the year 1926 there where more than 12,000 murders taking place thanks to the gang wars which made the city look like a active war zone.

The cops could not do anything because they where literally outgunned and the gangsters where equipped with Tommy guns.

Since the prohibition the crime rates went up including the Robberies, car theft, bank theft and much more.