Brandon Poisant
Mr. Degon
English 3 H
4/26/16
Organized Crime and Its Influences The 1920’s is the time in the United States when organized crime really started up. What caused this uprising in organized crime was prohibition; the ban on production, transportation, selling, and consumption of alcohol (unless for religious purposes). To counter this, mobs such as the Russian Mafia and the Italian Mafia took over the criminal scene with organized crime. It was like regular crime, just this time not as random and more orderly. The mobs saw potential in the situation with prohibition and took advantage of it by taking over production, transportation, and sale of alcohol. This would eventually lead to further problems with the law and it would …show more content…
Al Capone could arguably be the most intelligent mob boss of his time. He took over the leadership of Johnny Torrio’s gang in Chicago in the year of 1920. This was also around the time that prohibition was put into effect in the United States. This is where Al Capone focused most of his mobs resources on; the bootlegging of alcohol into the United States. He constructed several different paths of getting alcohol into the United States. Al Capone constructed transportation for alcohol into the United States from Canada, and even form some other states where breweries were still producing alcohol. Some of the breweries were as close by as in the same city that Al Capone resided in. He also had a brilliant idea of how to transport the alcohol and get it delivered to where people would go and consume it. What Al Capone did was move the alcohol with box trucks to placed call speakeasies (illegal bars that were used during prohibition). He also used salespeople to sell the alcohol to your regular day people. Since this was an extremely illegal operation at the time, one of the things Al Capone did was bribe a lot of policemen and people of high power such as politicians so they he basically had immunity to the prohibition laws and could not be touched (as long as he kept us his payments, of course). It was pretty rare if you were a police officer in the same district as Al Capone and you weren't under his payroll. He did have to pay off a lot of people though, spending tens of thousands of dollars just in bribes to keep his operations going. Since alcohol was always in high demand, because the people liked to drink, this brought in a ton of money for Al Capone and his gang. Al Capone was basically handed the alcohol monopoly of the United States. And since alcohol is a very profitable product, there was no short of money to go
Mr. Degon
English 3 H
4/26/16
Organized Crime and Its Influences The 1920’s is the time in the United States when organized crime really started up. What caused this uprising in organized crime was prohibition; the ban on production, transportation, selling, and consumption of alcohol (unless for religious purposes). To counter this, mobs such as the Russian Mafia and the Italian Mafia took over the criminal scene with organized crime. It was like regular crime, just this time not as random and more orderly. The mobs saw potential in the situation with prohibition and took advantage of it by taking over production, transportation, and sale of alcohol. This would eventually lead to further problems with the law and it would …show more content…
Al Capone could arguably be the most intelligent mob boss of his time. He took over the leadership of Johnny Torrio’s gang in Chicago in the year of 1920. This was also around the time that prohibition was put into effect in the United States. This is where Al Capone focused most of his mobs resources on; the bootlegging of alcohol into the United States. He constructed several different paths of getting alcohol into the United States. Al Capone constructed transportation for alcohol into the United States from Canada, and even form some other states where breweries were still producing alcohol. Some of the breweries were as close by as in the same city that Al Capone resided in. He also had a brilliant idea of how to transport the alcohol and get it delivered to where people would go and consume it. What Al Capone did was move the alcohol with box trucks to placed call speakeasies (illegal bars that were used during prohibition). He also used salespeople to sell the alcohol to your regular day people. Since this was an extremely illegal operation at the time, one of the things Al Capone did was bribe a lot of policemen and people of high power such as politicians so they he basically had immunity to the prohibition laws and could not be touched (as long as he kept us his payments, of course). It was pretty rare if you were a police officer in the same district as Al Capone and you weren't under his payroll. He did have to pay off a lot of people though, spending tens of thousands of dollars just in bribes to keep his operations going. Since alcohol was always in high demand, because the people liked to drink, this brought in a ton of money for Al Capone and his gang. Al Capone was basically handed the alcohol monopoly of the United States. And since alcohol is a very profitable product, there was no short of money to go