Prohibition Result: Organized Crime

In the 1920’s Alcohol was made illegal by Prohibition. The result: Organized Crime. Criminals jumped at the chance to supply the demand for liquor. The streets became battlegrounds. The criminals bought off law enforcement and judges. The Prohibition gave way to the growth of professional, criminal gangs. Prohibition was meant to reduce the consumption of alcohol, seen by some as the “devil’s advocate”, and thereby reduce crime, poverty, death rates, and improve the quality …

…politicians and paid off by the criminals. Due to so much corruption and increase in organized crime, the Prohibition was ratified in 1933. The problems prohibition intended to solve, such as crime, grew worse, and they never returned to their pre-prohibition levels. Not only was prohibition ineffective, it was also damaging to people and society it was meant to help. Prohibition should not have gone on for the thirteen years it was allowed to damage society.