FREE ESSAY ON GANGSTERISUM

GANGSTERISUM

GANGSTERISUM 
In 1919 congress passed the eighteenth amendment. Which abolished alcohol and legally
prohibited the manufacturing or sale of any kind of alcoholic beverages. Thus bringing
the rise and increase of organized crime and criminal activity. This amendment would be a
huge mistake for the country and the United States would suffer severely. 
If there is a demand for something, no mater what it is, there will always be somebody
there to partake in the process of fulfilling those needs of the consumer. Many people
indulged themselves in many different kinds of alcohol, in many different ways. It was a
way of life. Then the government steps in and puts a band on this way of life. State and
federal agents immediately closed down the bars and saloons. Only to reopen as
underground "speakeasies." So people started having to buy their cherished alcoholic
beverages illegally. Hidden places where people could knock and speak softly at a
securely locked door, a secret establishment for entrance into the underworld of illegal
liquor consumption. These secret places were first created by soon to be powerful mob
bosses. These bootlegging merchants that ran the speakeasies found riches and power in
the illegal operations. Thus bringing the introduction into organized crime.
Organized crime was soon on the rise, especially in large cities. The large bootlegging
operations blossomed into many other illegal activities. These organized crime leaders
had the police on their payroll working for them. They would tell them to look the other
way and the crooked police were paid very generously for their injustice abuse of
authority. They also had their hands in other corrupt businesses such as prostitution,
illegal gambling, and the smuggling of many different kinds of narcotic drugs. Gang
violence also became stronger between the rival mobs of organized crime. Street wars
broke out and many demonstrations of these crime leader's powers were expressed. The
increase of murders of low ranking, average citizens were becoming more and more common.
With most of the police on the "take", there were a lot fewer arrest and those criminals
who were arrested usually got off on all their charges, depending on whom they knew or
whom they worked for. Most of the mob bosses were so ruthless that they would bully
honest, hard working merchants into paying, so called "protection money", to the under
lords in their block or that ran the racket they worked in. If these simple shop workers
refused to pay them their protection money sometimes they would rough up their employees,
destroy their stores, and often hospitalize the shop keepers themselves. Large
corporations were not safe either. They were also affected. These racketeers would push
around the large businesses promoters, organizers, and even the strong labor unions.
Today the story is not so well known. It's not as bad today because people have more
trust in the police to protect them. The mobsters tend to leave normal average people
alone because they really have no business with them and they don't want to take the risk
of getting caught by show boating their names and powers. The racketeers of today are not
as publicly known even thought they still have many different holds on large corporations
and large parts of the cities. Also the law is more forceful today than eighty years ago
against organized crime. Today you wont find many crooked authority officials that you
could just pay off to get yourself out of trouble. Not to say that these payoffs don't
still occur today they are just kept quiet and people have learned many ways to not get
caught. There are still many illegal casinos, prostitution rings, and racketeering run by
these large secret society's., but drugs are still probably the number one money making
business for organized crime units in the United States today.
There is too much money to be made out there illegally, that organized crime is here to
stay. If it's Mafia, Columbian, or Street based, in some form or another it will be
organized by somebody in one way or another.