Tommy guns, fedoras, slick black suits; put all these together and a pretty clear picture comes to mind, a Mafia man. Throughout time, things like the Mafia have been in existence. Today, gangs in big cities are the main source of the criminal underbelly. The visual in the appendix depicts FBI agents finding a burial ground for the Mafia’s own. With all these incidents, even today we are able to pinpoint when the Mafia truly began to gain power; during prohibition and how gangs have risen to power with the rise of drugs. How and why prohibition caused such a growth in the Mafia is simple supply and demand and how the Mafia lost power and the gangs began to take over occurred much in the same way.
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By the time alcohol was again legal, hard drugs had been outlawed. Things we abhor now, such as cocaine, was actually in the beverage Coca-Cola, which is probably the reason it was so addictive. Mark Thorton, Professor of Economics at Auburn University, talks of the decline of alcohol and the rise of drugs. At the end of the 60’s, alcohol had gone out of style, but once the government outlawed many of the drugs we hear of today, people were wondering why their Coke tasted different, and why they couldn’t get their favorite face powder which led to the rise of buying drugs. However since the Mafia saw firsthand what those drugs did to people, they decided not to even touch the stuff after a short interval of selling it while seeing the true deterioration of their clientele. So a new market with lots of demands was brought into the light, (33). Once the Mafia decided not to sell drugs, a whole new market was open for the taking, so new coalitions were being formed and rose as the demand of hard drugs rose and thus the beginnings of gangs were being formed. The rise of the much more violent world of gangs is very different from the world of Mafia, but not in a good way. Stephen Malllory, PhD of legal studies and professor at Mississippi University talks of these changes in his book. The rise of gangs gives way to what we have today, the presence of drug cartels on our country, and even the increased violence rate in big cities. For the Mafia, it used to be that they would only hurt those that crossed them, but now if you cross the gangs, not only will they hurt you, but your entire family as well, (163). The Mafia, while still a criminal underbelly, could still be described as a gentlemen, even with all their crimes; they respected women and children and never dared the thought of hurting them, but now gangs kidnap those very same groups for both
Supply and demand it is the simplest form of …show more content…
By the time alcohol was again legal, hard drugs had been outlawed. Things we abhor now, such as cocaine, was actually in the beverage Coca-Cola, which is probably the reason it was so addictive. Mark Thorton, Professor of Economics at Auburn University, talks of the decline of alcohol and the rise of drugs. At the end of the 60’s, alcohol had gone out of style, but once the government outlawed many of the drugs we hear of today, people were wondering why their Coke tasted different, and why they couldn’t get their favorite face powder which led to the rise of buying drugs. However since the Mafia saw firsthand what those drugs did to people, they decided not to even touch the stuff after a short interval of selling it while seeing the true deterioration of their clientele. So a new market with lots of demands was brought into the light, (33). Once the Mafia decided not to sell drugs, a whole new market was open for the taking, so new coalitions were being formed and rose as the demand of hard drugs rose and thus the beginnings of gangs were being formed. The rise of the much more violent world of gangs is very different from the world of Mafia, but not in a good way. Stephen Malllory, PhD of legal studies and professor at Mississippi University talks of these changes in his book. The rise of gangs gives way to what we have today, the presence of drug cartels on our country, and even the increased violence rate in big cities. For the Mafia, it used to be that they would only hurt those that crossed them, but now if you cross the gangs, not only will they hurt you, but your entire family as well, (163). The Mafia, while still a criminal underbelly, could still be described as a gentlemen, even with all their crimes; they respected women and children and never dared the thought of hurting them, but now gangs kidnap those very same groups for both