Prohibition was a baffling time in US history. The United State of America was place that lived for its freedom but Prohibition seems to go against that principle. The 18th amendment told people that they were not allowed to drink a beverage that they had been enjoying for years. It was historian W.J. Rorabaugh that best described it by saying “Americans drank from the crack of dawn to the crack of dawn.” But even with this kind of thinking the amendment was passed and it changed the way America would function and gave way too many faces we still recognized today. But the area that really changed and almost refined its self during this time was crime. Prohibition gave the chance to everyday petty criminal to elevate themselves to rich crime
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One seller distributed his liquor by disguising the bottles as milk bottles and dressing up as the milkman (Burns). Today we see the same thing going on with the smuggling of drugs and even people. Across the borders of Mexico and Canada passes people and drugs in some unspeakable ways. The necessity is so great people are willing to do anything for the sake of money. The human trafficking business has become such a huge area of profit it is almost out doing the drug trade (Mountz 59). Like the bootleggers smugglers are providing a service. Many people come to the US through visas but leave family members behind. And because of one reason or another they go to smugglers in desperation to bring their families to them. By doing this around 200 million people all over the world are in debt to smugglers (Mountz 59). The drug trades is just as bad and ruthless. Mexican drug cartels fight and murdered each other for the best trade routes possible. In Tijuana the death rate of police officers is so high that there is few people willing to take the job (Enriquez and Marosi). And just like the bootleggers cartels are coming up with new way to import their stuff. But even the most ruthless gangsters of the 1920’s might hesitate to use some of the methods of drug lords today. Many cartels will use people as drug mules by making them insert drug packages in multiple areas of the body. But not drug and human trafficking is not the only place where innovation is taking place. The new wild west of the world is the Internet. Vast and populated by nearly every person in the world, the Internet allows people to become and do more then ever before. With this kind of playground there are people who use it to do wrong. It’s become a regular thing on the news of a large company being hacked and having customer information stolen and getting away clean. The latest giant to get hacked
One seller distributed his liquor by disguising the bottles as milk bottles and dressing up as the milkman (Burns). Today we see the same thing going on with the smuggling of drugs and even people. Across the borders of Mexico and Canada passes people and drugs in some unspeakable ways. The necessity is so great people are willing to do anything for the sake of money. The human trafficking business has become such a huge area of profit it is almost out doing the drug trade (Mountz 59). Like the bootleggers smugglers are providing a service. Many people come to the US through visas but leave family members behind. And because of one reason or another they go to smugglers in desperation to bring their families to them. By doing this around 200 million people all over the world are in debt to smugglers (Mountz 59). The drug trades is just as bad and ruthless. Mexican drug cartels fight and murdered each other for the best trade routes possible. In Tijuana the death rate of police officers is so high that there is few people willing to take the job (Enriquez and Marosi). And just like the bootleggers cartels are coming up with new way to import their stuff. But even the most ruthless gangsters of the 1920’s might hesitate to use some of the methods of drug lords today. Many cartels will use people as drug mules by making them insert drug packages in multiple areas of the body. But not drug and human trafficking is not the only place where innovation is taking place. The new wild west of the world is the Internet. Vast and populated by nearly every person in the world, the Internet allows people to become and do more then ever before. With this kind of playground there are people who use it to do wrong. It’s become a regular thing on the news of a large company being hacked and having customer information stolen and getting away clean. The latest giant to get hacked